More than 3,100 children were reported missing in Cuyahoga County in 2015.
“We were following up on every lead,” Anderson said,
“We were looking everywhere for those young ladies. We were trying so desperately to find them. We were walking in houses, we were interviewing people, we were all over the place doing that.”
When it comes to investigating the cases of missing children, that’s a plight that may be growing more and more familiar to law enforcement officers across the country and here at home. The amount of reported missing children in Ohio is on the rise.
More than 18,600 missing children reports were filed across the state in 2015. That’s a slight increase from 18,097 in 2014.
The majority of those children fell between the ages of 13-17, and more than half of last year’s reported missing kids were girls.
97% of those children were recovered safely.
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