We have all heard the saying about making mountains out of molehills. When you view the missing children statistics, they claim approximately 800k children are reported missing each year, while another 500k are missing that are never reported. In fact there are over 2,100 missing children per day!
A search of the NCMEC site for Missing children from 01-01-06 thru 07-05-06 revealed there were 514 missing children. If you view the period 06-01-06 thru 07-05-06 it revealed:
Total missing children 106
Endangered missing 0
Endangered Runaway 86
Family abductions 0
Hague cases 0
Lost, Injured, missing 4
Missing 14
Non Family abductions 2
Unidentified 0
Unknown 0
I realize they may not post those cases “resolved” regardless of the outcome, but it seems a far cry from 800k. Are they resolved before being sent to the NCMEC? Are they deleted once resolved. Or is it making a mountain out of a molehill as to the number of actual occurrences involving missing children? Depends on your view.
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