Most Missing Kids Quickly Found

An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing every year — a rate of more than 2,000 per day, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

But the vast majority of them are quickly found.

Most reported missing person cases turn out to be teenage runaways, said Maryland State Police Detective Sgt. Jim DeWees of the Westminster barrack. Most of them return home or are found at a friend’s house of some other familiar location, and police are able to make contact with them within 24 hours.

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