4,400 Missing Children In Texas
On June - 2 - 2013
147 of them are missing in El Paso County, TX alone
Texas currently has 4,400 active missing-children cases, and 147 of them are in El Paso County, Robert R. Almonte, U.S. marshal for the Western District of Texas, said Thursday. Almonte provided other statistics during a news conference on missing children at the federal courthouse in Downtown El Paso. “Each year, about 800,000 children are abducted nationally, and some 97 percent of them are recovered,” he said. “About 56,000 of the abductions are non-family abductions. And in Texas about 46,000 children are abducted each year.” READ MORE HERE
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By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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