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National Missing
Children’s Day 2018
Help Us Find Them
Today (May 25), on National Missing Children’s Day, we would like you
to look at the faces of the children on this page—some who went missing
years ago and some more recently—and reach out to law enforcement if
you have any information that might lead to the recovery of any of
these kids.
Children continue to face dangerous threats these days from online
predators, human traffickers, kidnappers, and other criminals who want
to harm them. At the end of 2017, the Bureau’s National Crime
Information Center (NCIC) Missing Persons File contained more than
32,000 records of youngsters under the age of 18.
But missing kids can be found, and those responsible for taking them
can be brought to justice. Earlier this year, a man abducted a
4-year-old South Carolina girl from her mother. The child, through law
enforcement efforts and the assistance of alert citizens, was safely
recovered and returned to her mother. The man was ultimately arrested
and federally charged with kidnapping, and he’s also facing charges in
state court.
In addition to our efforts to publicize, investigate, and offer
assistance to our local and state partners when kids go missing, the
FBI also has programs in place to arrest child predators and to recover
missing and endangered children, including our Innocence Lost
Initiative, Innocent Images National Initiative, the annual Operation
Cross Country, Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Teams, Victim Services
Division, Child Exploitation Task Forces, International Crimes Against
Children Task Forces, and a number of community outreach programs that
help educate parents and children about safety measures they can
follow. We also partner with organizations like the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
All of this is an effort to help protect our nation’s most precious
resource—our kids.
See all photos at the FBI Website
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