Where do all the Little Ones go?

"According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States -- that's roughly 2,000 per day."

Source: ABC News confirmed here

Quote from BBC report about the same statistic:

"A 2002 study funded by the US Department of Justice. This examined data for 1999 from a range of sources, including police reports, and interviews with parents and children, and found 797,500 children were reported missing across the country."

The number had fallen by 2014 (the advent of the cell phone has helped).
"In 2014, the FBI received about 600,000 reports of people going missing, the majority of whom were under 18"
BBC report here.

According to the FBI, in 2016 there were 465,676 NCIC entries for missing children. (Report here)

Of the more than 18,500 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2016, one in six were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 86 percent were in the care of social services when they went missing.

Full report of National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), here.

Full report here

How serious a problem, disappearing minors is, is hard to gauge, but the conservative figures above, suggest over 2,000 per year become sex trafficking victims.

Why this is important?

The Fake News moral panic, in both the arose in America at the same time, precisely, that stories about pizza and ping pong started emerging on social media. These involved alleged sex exploitation of children.

Whether the coded information about pizza parlours and political influence in Washington DC has real substance, is difficult to decide definitively, That there is high weirdness involved, with strange email content, is undeniable. the very fact that many readers who reach this point will have no idea what is being referred to here, is a case in point, as the story - if true - would rock American politics for years to come.

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The images used above are for educational purposes only, and a shared under the rights of creative commons.
No connection with the alleged pizzagate scandal with those photographed, is implied or intended. The pictures illustrate the ubiquity of the pizza meme.