Authorities used drones, boats and dogs Sunday to search for a 9-year-old girl who disappeared while camping with her family in upstate New York.
He was riding his bike around a circular path with other kids when he decided to take one last ride on his own.
The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, when giving information to the press about the case. | Photo: Screenshot WRGB CBS 6 News.
From beautiful memory to nightmare
Parents became concerned when the girl did not return for about 15 minutes, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday.
“The family was there making memories, the kind that will last a lifetime. In return, this became a nightmare for parents,” the governor also commented.
The girl’s mother called police when they found the bicycle around 6:45 pm on Saturday.
Police issued an Amber Alert on Sunday morning after an extensive search because “it is very possible that this is a kidnapping,” said police Lt. Col. Richard Mazzone.
More than 100 people participated in the search this Sunday, including police, park rangers and civilians.
“We will not stop examining every stone, branch, table or hut in our search for Charlotte,” said Hochul, who described the girl as a “cheerful” child who recently won an election for her school’s student council.
Charlotte, a resident of nearby Greenfield, is white, with blonde hair. She is just over 1.5 meters tall and weighs 40 kilos.
Charlotte’s bike showed up, but she didn’t. | Photo: Photo: Getty images.
An endless drama
The daughter of a firefighter and a fourth-grade student, she is described as intelligent and has an adventurous spirit. She recently was elected president of her class.
FBI figures, in 2020 alone, 365,348 entries were submitted to the FBI’s National Criminal Information Center (NCIC), which reported missing minors. A year ago, the total number of minors reported missing on that platform was 421,394.
This number represents missing child reports, which means that if a child ran away multiple times in a year, each incident was entered into the NCIC separately and counted in the annual total. Likewise, if an entry is removed and modified or updated, it is also reflected in the total.
Over the past 36 years, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) national toll-free hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678), has received more than 5 millions of calls.
91 percent are escaped and endangered children. 5 percent respond to family abductions. 3 percent are youth missing by other people. Less than 1 percent are non-family abductions. 1 percent are lost, injured or missing children. shape.
Of the more than 26,500 runaway and endangered children reported to NCMEC in 2020, one in 6 were likely victims of child sex trafficking.
2023-10-02 02:03:21
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