I have been doing some research on missing children statistics online and I asked two FBI agents out of Little Rock that were in my shop today about the crackdown on child trafficking and they said most of the kids are actually runaways. However they said there are still thousands of children that do go missing each year in the United States but it's not 800,000. They estimated it to be 1-2% of that number that are actually abducted which is roughly 8,000-16,000 kids! Thats alot! They also told me that most of the runaways are children in foster care and they will often times voluntarily go into the sex or drug trade for money to survive. So that tells me we have got to also figure out how to take care of these kids so they don't fall through the cracks. Too many people having sex, dropping babies everywhere and not taking care of them, it's heartbreaking.
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It’s probably a higher number than 800,000. Those are just the ones that are reported