Thousands of people go missing in the United States each year and many are never heard from again.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States -- that's roughly 2,000 per day. Of those, there are 115 child "stranger abduction" cases each year, which means the child was taken by an unknown person.
Obviously 115 are KNOWN to be stranger abductions because the person seen or otherwise known to take the child was a stranger to the viewer, person reporting the abductino, or the child. But "many are never heard from again" may also be stranger abductions, runaways taken by who knows who, etc. The idea that ALL missing children other than 115 are NOT stranger abduction cannot be accurate. That would mean all the rest are either runaways or taken by relatives or other known individuals.
What I would like to know is numbers of how many are recovered and how many are not. The article has almost no facts and most of it is vignettes on missing children.
The idea that ALL missing children other than 115 are NOT stranger abduction cannot be accurate.I'm confident in saying that is is MUCH closer to 115 than it is to 800,000.
Here is the study: National Estimates of Missing Children: An Overview
The vast majority are runaways or merely missing for short periods, hanging out with friends or with other family members or taken by a divorced or separated parent. . . solved. Many of those children are never seen again regardless of the explanation of how they disappeared.
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