Missing Children

At least 10,000 refugee children who were not accompanied by their parents disappeared after arriving in Europe, announced today Europol, link:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/fears-for-missing-child-refugees
 
casper said:
At least 10,000 refugee children who were not accompanied by their parents disappeared after arriving in Europe, announced today Europol, link:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/fears-for-missing-child-refugees
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Well, that is chilling. :shock: Guess that horrendous things happen not only under a cover of war, but also refugee crisis, or any other chaotic situation for that matter.
 
I saw this article today on children who go missing in the education system in Scotland. They report "that about 390 children aged between four and 16 have been recorded as "missing in education" in each of the past three years." Granted, a lot are from ethnic backgrounds that move about frequently but 390 seems to be a lot. Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41579840
 
Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Admits It “Lost” 1,500 Immigrant Children, Handed Many of Them Directly To Human Traffickers

I found that article at www.stateofglobe.com

According to a Senate subcommittee testimony last week, nearly 1,500 immigrant children were lost in government arranged foster homes last year, with the suspicion that many of them were kidnapped by human traffickers. ..
Many of the children are still unaccounted for, but some of them who have been found were held captive by human traffickers in terrible conditions.(...)

Acting assistant secretary at HHS, Steven Wagner, told the committee that between October and December of 2017, HHS called 7,635 children that the agency placed with sponsors and they were only able to track down 6,075 of them. At least 28 of them had reportedly run away, five others were deported, 52 were living with someone else and 1,475 were missing.(...)

The number of children in danger could be much larger, considering that since 2013, more than 180,000 unaccompanied immigrant children passed into America, and very few of them had family in the states who they could stay with, so many of them were placed in the care of random foster families who did not have to go through the same types of background checks and scrutiny that foster families usually do.(...)

Along with immigrants and refugees, Native Americans have an especially high risk of becoming victims of human traffickers. As The Free Thought Project reported last year, Native American women and children are disappearing from areas near oil fields, where thousands of workers from around the country live in “man camps.” Investigations have revealed human trafficking to be a factor in many of these instances, but police in native tribes do not have jurisdiction to arrest non-natives, making it difficult to prosecute the human traffickers who are preying on their community.
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Ursus :cry:
 
Skeletal remains inside girl’s shoe found near site of Hart family crash
Updated 10:30 am, Friday, May 11, 2018 KOIN.com
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California Highway Patrol officers and deputy sheriffs from Mendocino and Alameda counties gather after a search fchildren Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at the site where the bodies of Jennifer ... more​
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Skeletal remains were discovered this week inside a shoe on a beach in Mendocino County about a mile from the cliff Jennifer Hart drove off in a sports utility vehicle containing her wife and adopted children, officials said.

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office received a call Wednesday night after a local resident found jeans with a shoe entangled on a beach near the mouth of Hardy Creek, just north of the crash site.

“The jeans were a girl’s size 10 regular and the shoe appeared to be a 3.5 U.S. big kid size and/or 5.5 women’s U.S. size,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “Upon inspection, it was determined skeletal remains of what appeared to be a human foot was inside of the shoe.”

After the crash on March 26, the bodies of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, were found strapped into the vehicle, which plunged 100 feet into the Pacific Ocean. The bodies of three of their adopted children — Markis, 19, and Jeremiah and Abigail, both 14 — were found outside the vehicle. The family had driven to California from their home in Washington state.

The body of Ciera Hart, 12, was found about a week after the crash, while two children — Devante, 15, and 16-year-old Hannah — remain missing. Authorities are attempting to determine if the skeletal remains found Wednesday belong to one of the missing children.

children saying their parents refused to feed them.

An anonymous complaint about the family was made to child protective services in Washington state’s Clark County, and a county sheriff’s deputy was sent to make a welfare check the week the family went missing.

On April 2, officials announced that they believe the crash may have been intentional.

Jennifer Hart was found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.102 percent, as well as “a significant amount” of Diphenhydramine (an active ingredient in Benadryl) in her system. A toxicology report following the crash revealed that three of the children had Diphenhydramine in their systems as well.

“At this point we think a felony was committed,” said Officer Olegario Marin, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol. “We’re investigating all aspects of the incident and believe it was possibly an intentional act.”

Missing dogs raise more questions about Hart family murder-suicide investigation
April 27, 2018 PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN)

Thursday Crime Stories: Are nearly 10 missing teen girls buried on remote Michigan woodlands?
May 10, 2018
Michigan investigators are digging up a wooded area northeast of Detroit in a search for more than a half dozen women who may have been murdered and buried there decades ago. Nancy Grace explores the case of Arthur Reams, who is already in prison for killing 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki.

Police now believe he had many more victims possibly buried near where Cindy’s body was found. Grace is joined by forensics expert Karen Smith, Chicago psychologist Dr. Tiffany Sanders, and CrimeOnline investigative reporter John Lemley.
Are nearly 10 missing teen girls buried on remote Michigan woodlands?"Podcast /48:34
 
Big Effort Aims To Tie Up Cold Cases
June 8, 2018 at 11:58 pm Video / 03:00

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) –
Sacramento County is investigating nearly 1,200 missing person’s cases.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department has now partnered with local and federal agencies to tie up more than 1,000 cold cases.

“They don’t know what happened to their loved one,” said Deputy Sheriff Paige Kneeland. “And that is something that eats away at them for years.”

On Saturday, the sheriff’s department will partner with several local and national agencies to try to solve cold cases, some dating back to 1944. It’s an event called Missing in CA. It’s the first of its kind to come to Northern California.

“My sister and I always knew that he had died because he would never have just disappeared!” said Kristen Yager Duarte, who lives in Sacramento.

The last night she saw her father, George Steven Yager, was the night of her junior prom. Duarte was just 17 years old. She says her father had mental-health issues and his missing person’s case wasn’t a priority for police.

“For 12 years, it was just a question mark,” she said.

That was until 2009 when she got a call from Kneeland.

“We found your father and we know what happened,” Duarte recalled. “You were right, he was murdered.”

In 2005, Kneeland had two cases: one a John Doe, found burned post-mortem. The other case, for 47-year-old Yager.

“It just so happened I had been reviewing an unidentified remains case that matched that physical description,” Kneeland said.

Duarte provided a DNA sample and Kneeland discovered the two cases were a match.

“To have that finally come to closure is just more than I can say with words,” Duarte said.

But for some families, that closure never comes.

“There’s not a ton of resources invested initially just because there’s no crime scene and there’s no compass to point us in any direction,” Kneeland explained.

Some cases were reported in the ’60s and ’70s, long before national databases like the National Crime Information Center ever existed. Kneeland says details from families like a broken bone or prior surgery are critical.

“Any information that the family can bring that can lend itself to identifying a person,” Kneeland said. “Having that public input can be helpful.”

“No matter what happens, you’ll at least know more,” Duarte said.

He told CBS13 her sister recently had a baby and named her Paige, after the deputy that brought their family so much peace.

Tomorrow’s “Missing in CA” event will be at the Harper Alumni Center at Sacramento State, 6000 College Town Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is encouraged but not required.
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Questions Surface After 2 Girls Go Missing From Elementary School In South Sacramento
November 30, 2018 at 10:45 pm
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Families of two elementary school students who disappeared in South Sacramento today got a big relief today.

The seven-year-old girls walked off of school campus before class started at Peter Burnett Elementary. Five hours later, they were found safe.

The girls were found in Curtis Park, five miles away from their school and five hours after they went missing, leading several people to ask: who did they get away from school so easily?

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The girls after they were found by a police K9 team. (Credit: Sacramento Police Department)

“A million things run through your head. You don’t want to think the worst, but in this day and age, how can you not?” said Ella’s mother.

A parent’s worst nightmare came true today when their 7-year-old daughter Ella disappeared from school with her classmate.

“They’re seven. They’re seven years old,” she said.

The girls were both dropped off at school and even played on the playground for a but, but never made it to their classrooms.

It been a rough day for Ella who says she and her friend decided to go on an adventure, walking right out of the school’s front gate that was not being monitored.

“Usually there’s like a girl right there, but today she wasn’t there,” said Ella.

School officials say they realized the girls were gone just after class started around 9 a.m. and then searched the campus. An hour later, still no luck. They called police and parents.

“I looked everywhere,” said Ella’s father.

For nearly five hours the girls were gone police, family and friends searching everywhere.

“After an hour or two you’re like are they ever gonna find them?” said Ella’s mother.

Then the panic turned to relief when a police K9 unit spotted in Curtis Park. They were unharmed, but miles away from where they should have been. They had crossing train tracks and busy streets.

“I just saw her and I was like, she’s safe,” said Ella’s father.

But parents want to know why their kids were able to leave in the first place.

“It is their responsibility. Once those kids cross that line into the playground, they are responsible for those children,” said Ella’s mother.

Despite missing class, this second grade student learned a lesson today.

Angela: Are you glad to be home tonight?

Ella: Yes.

Angela: Are you gonna walk out of school again?

Ella shook her head no.

“Thank you God, she’s home,” said Ella’s father.

A Sacramento City Unified School District spokesperson says they’re still investigating how the girls got out unnoticed.

Ella’s parents plan to meet with the school’s principal monday to make sure this never happens again.

 
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Coroner: Legendary Bay Area Radio Host Likely Died Of Exposure
December 5, 2018 at 5:28 am
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Retired Bay Area broadcast legend Ray Taliaferro, whose body was found in the woods in Paducah, Kentucky, likely died from exposure to the elements, the coroner announced late Tuesday night.

In a late night news release, the Paducah police department said foul play had been ruled out in his death.

“An autopsy was conducted today at the Regional Crime Lab in Madisonville,” the statement said. “A report has not been finalized, but exposure to the elements may have been a factor in the California man’s death.”

Taliaferro, a legendary Bay Area journalist for KGO radio went missing last month in Kentucky.

He and his wife of six months — Charlotte Crawford — were visiting a property she had inherited in Brookport, Illinois. Police and a family spokesperson both said that Taliaferro and Crawford were preparing to leave the property in a rental car together, when she went to the rear of the house to check on a window.

When she returned, the car and Taliaferro, who may have been suffering from memory issues, were gone. A search was launched in Illinois and nearby states.

His body was found Sunday evening in a “wooded area approximately a mile from where he was last seen,” a family statement said.

Taliaferro was a broadcasting trailblazer, the first African-American major market radio talk show host in the country.

Surveillance video that surfaced last week of Taliaferro on the evening of November 10th, when he knocked on the door of a church in Paducah and spoke to the music director.

The video shows him talking for about 15 or 20 minutes.

Award-winning journalist Bryan Monroe, a friend of Taliaferro’s family, spoke to the church music director seen in the video with Taliaferro who told him the retired radio host seemed confused.

“He seemed a little disoriented, but explained who he was; he said that he was a prominent San Francisco Bay Area radio host and was very talkative,” said Monroe.

“He tended to repeat himself a few times. They stood by the door and chatted for a bit. And then he left at 5:01 p.m. on Saturday, Nov 10. That was the last time Taliaferro was seen.”

Taliaferro was a leading voice among progressives and often focused on political issues affecting the U.S. and the state of California on his talk show. His family told authorities he had become forgetful lately.
 
The body of a West Chester University math professor who had been missing since last month in Ohio was identified Tuesday by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, according to the university and news reports.

West Chester professor, missing since Thanksgiving, found dead in Ohio
Tomas Short Jr., the West Chester University professor who was missing for more than two weeks after never showing up for Thanksgiving dinner, has been found dead in Ohio.

Short was visiting family for the holidays in Orange, Ohio, about 20 miles east of Cleveland when he went missing.
His sister wrote on Facebook that Short never had picked up a key to his hotel room, and his phone and car were both still at the hotel.

His body was found by Cleveland Metropark rangers last week at the Acacia Reservation, a 155-acre park just north of Orange, according to Fox8 Cleveland. A cause of death has not been determined, according to the rangers.

Family members had started a GoFundMe last week, hoping to hire a private investigator to track Short’s whereabouts and find answers. The family had raised $24,000.

R. Lorraine Bernotsky, executive vice president and provost at West Chester, email a statement Tuesday afternoon about Short's death, via Patch:
“Our hearts are heavy with the tragic news of the death of Dr. Tom Short, associate professor of mathematics. Dr. Short's untimely passing is a great loss for our community. We extend condolences and support to his family, friends, colleagues, and many students during this very difficult time.” ​
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Police in Orange are still investigating.​


Investigation yields few clues on missing Colorado woman
Investigation Yields Few Clues on Missing Colorado Woman
Updated: December 13, 2018 Video

DENVER —Kelsey Berreth was last seen on Thanksgiving Day, captured on surveillance video entering a grocery store with what appears to be her 1-year-old daughter in a baby carrier. Weeks later, investigators don’t know what happened to the 29-year-old Colorado mother.

Her fiance has told police the couple, who did not live together, met sometime on the holiday to exchange their child. After that, police said the only signs of Berreth were text messages from her cell phone. Her disappearance has mystified her family and police leading a multi-state search.

“Kelsey, we just want you home,” her mother, Cheryl Berreth pleaded at a press conference Monday. “Call us if you can. We won’t quit looking.”

The woman’s fiance, Patrick Frazee, told police she last texted him on Nov. 25, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Her employer, an aviation company, got a text message from Berreth’s phone the same day, saying the flight instructor planned to take the following week off.

Police later received data indicating Berreth’s phone was near Gooding, Idaho, that same day, nearly 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) from her home in Woodland Park, Colorado.

A police investigation was opened Dec. 2 after Cheryl Berreth asked for a welfare check of her daughter. The Woodland Park Police Department has classified the disappearance as a missing person case. The department did not immediately respond to a request for an update on the investigation on Thursday.

Investigators who went to the woman’s home found some cinnamon rolls in Berreth’s kitchen and both of her cars still in place outside the home. Woodland Park Police Chief Miles De Young said the company where Berreth worked, Doss Aviation, has accounted for all their planes and police have no reason to believe she used someone else’s plane for a flight.

In the surveillance video released this week, Berreth is seen entering a Woodland Park grocery store at 12:05 p.m. Her hair is pinned back in a bun, and she is carrying a purse and a baby carrier mostly covered by a blanket. She then pushes a shopping cart into the store, perching the carrier on top.

Police have not said what time she and Frazee met to exchange their daughter. The child remains with her father, police said.

“Kelsey, we just want you home,” her mother, Cheryl Berreth pleaded at a press conference Monday. “Call us if you can. We won’t quit looking.” By Kathleen Foody


Links: Missing
I Have Vanished
Oregon Missing (@OregonsMissing) | Twitter
LostNMissing Inc (@lostnmissing) | Twitter
Missing People (@missingpeople) | Twitter
CA Missing Report (@camissingreport) | Twitter
 
Here is an article from SOTT about woman giving birth to 10 babies.
www.sott.net

South African woman gives birth to 10 babies in Pretoria - reports

A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies in what would be a new world record. Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb. "It's seven boys and three...
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The same story went viral all over the world.

Then started reports that the babies are missing; like i.e. :
www.mirror.co.uk

Mystery as dad of 'ten babies' claims they 'do not exist' - and mum is missing

Tebogo Tsotetsi says he does not think Gosiame Thamara Sithole gave birth to 10 babies in a statement reported by local outlets in South Africa - as a missing persons case is opened for the mum
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I went to the same South Africa’s IOL WebSite where the initial story about delivery was reported.
The same portal now also says that the 10 babies are in fact missing! :umm:
www.iol.co.za

Tembisa decuplets: State’s ’mammoth cover-up’

An investigation confirmed that the decuplets’ mother, Gosiame Sithole, gave birth at Steve Biko Hospital, but it’s unclear what happened to the babies and what their state of health is.
www.iol.co.za www.iol.co.za

Pretoria - Decuplets mother Gosiame Sithole gave birth at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital on Monday last week, but the whereabouts and state of her babies remain a mystery.

An investigation by Independent Media, assisted by a private investigator, has uncovered that the woman who made international headlines when she gave birth to 10 children was admitted to the government-owned hospital in Pretoria earlier that day and delivered her babies. It’s unclear what happened to the babies and what their state of health is.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Independent Media, which initiated a private investigation into the birth of the decuplets following denials by government officials, said the story was not fake news but a cover-up of mammoth proportions.
The Pretoria News reported on the birth of the decuplets on Monday last week. Various government officials immediately denied the story, saying the state had no records of such births. They included Government Communications and Information Systems (GCIS) chief executive Phuma Williams; Gauteng government spokesperson Thabo Masebe; Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi; and Steve Biko Hospital chief executive Dr Mathabo Mathebula.
However, sources told the Pretoria News the denials were part of a campaign to cover up medical negligence that involved senior politicians and public servants including Premier David Makhura, Mokgethi and Mathebula. They likened it to the Life Esidimeni scandal.

While senior politicians and government officials claimed the story was a hoax, an investigation by Independent Media has uncovered the following:
On Monday June 7, Ms Sithole was admitted to Steve Biko Academic Hospital. She arrived at the hospital shortly after 3pm. She was seen at the maternity ward of the hospital. She delivered 10 babies – seven boys and three girls.
Doctors, who had been expecting eight babies, were surprised by the delivery of 10.

Sithole delivered five babies by natural birth and had to undergo a Caesarean section for the delivery of the other five. The hospital did not have enough functional incubators at the time of Sithole’s birth.
Nurses told Sithole the babies had been taken to the intensive-care unit (ICU). A nurse told Sithole on Tuesday that there were complications with her babies.
Sithole, who was dizzy and still weak, could not fully comprehend the information. She later moved to the mothers’ (or lodge) section of the hospital where parents of stillborn children recuperate. When she regained her composure, she went to the ICU and demanded to see her children.
However, she was denied access and threatened with arrest and referral to a psychiatric hospital.
On Saturday, a staff member called her sister and told her to collect Sithole.
The sister arranged an Uber which took Sithole to her place in Rabie Ridge, Midrand.
The hospital did not have, or put in place, a clear operational plan for Sithole’s birth. The doctors who helped Sithole deliver have gone to ground and have been unreachable since Tuesday.
Nurses and doctors were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements barring them from disclosing information about Sithole’s delivery and the babies.
Steve Biko staff have repeatedly called Sithole since Saturday begging her to return to the hospital as part of a plot to lock her up and paint her as a mental case.
Sources at Steve Biko confirmed there were babies in the ICU named Sithole and that the mother had been in the lodge’s section at Steve Biko, which is only for mothers who have given birth.
Sithole confirmed during an interview this week that she indeed gave birth at Steve Biko.
Approached for comment on Wednesday night, Mokgethi said she was in church but would look at the questions sent and reply to them.
“Dear ma’am. Please contact Gauteng Department of Health, Gauteng Department of Social Development and SAPS,” Mathebula said in a text message.
On Wednesday night, Independent Media released the findings of its investigation into the decuplets matter.
Insisting that the government’s denial was a cover-up of mammoth proportions, the media organisation demanded that the government come clean about Sithole’s babies and their state of health.
“We can confirm that Ms Sithole was transferred to the lodge’s section on Thursday. She was not provided with food, except for bread and tea in the mornings. She was provided with no medical or psychological assistance.
“This information is corroborated by several independent sources, including staff at Steve Biko Academic Hospital. Independent Media will present all such evidence and our records to law enforcement officials if requested to do so.
“Considering our findings, Independent Media calls for an urgent investigation into the actions and statements of the chief executive of Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Dr Mathebula; the Gauteng provincial government and the Gauteng Health MEC, Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi, with respect to the birth of the decuplets. We would like answers from Dr Mathebula, Gauteng Premier Mr David Makhura and Ms Mokgethi,” said Independent Media.
It has slated its competitors and sections of the public for using the story to wage a campaign against it.
“Instead of being a cause for celebration, however, it has resulted in an orchestrated campaign to discredit the story, the mother of the decuplets, Ms Sithole, the Pretoria News editor Piet Rampedi, as well as Independent Media and its chairperson, Dr Iqbal Survé, with claims that the story is ‘fake news’. It is not and we stand by our story.”
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Mari said:
Here is an article from SOTT about woman giving birth to 10 babies.
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Thanks for bringing it up. It is a confusing story that's for sure. I have read a couple of articles about the case and still can't make heads and tails out of it. One thing I noticed though: in a lot of the articles, when it is said that this or that person has said this or that, a real source is almost never provided. Puzzling for me at the moment.
 
This case of 10 babies is really strange...

Now Gauteng Provincial Government take legal action against Rampedi and Independent Media
www.thesouthafrican.com

Tembisa 10: Gauteng to take legal action against Rampedi and Independent

The Gauteng Provincial Government said it has instructed the State Attorney to take legal action against Piet Rampedi and the Independent Group, on Wednesday.
www.thesouthafrican.com www.thesouthafrican.com
The portal says Piet Rampedi said in a letter to his editor that he has caused the agency 'reputational damage', but maintained that the Tembisa 10 are real.
www.thesouthafrican.com

Tembisa 10: Piet Rampedi 'apologises' for sketchy decuplet reporting

Piet Rampedi said in a letter to his editor that he has caused the agency 'reputational damage', but maintained that the Tembisa 10 are real.
www.thesouthafrican.com www.thesouthafrican.com

Well, the reporter today announced another statement, that he stands by his story

I stand by my Tembisa decuplets story

I stand by the decuplets story, will vigorously defend any litigation, and challenge MECs and ministers to deny Gosiame Sithole’s delivery under oath, writes Piet Rampedi.
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He says in the article:
On 8 June, the Pretoria News broke the story online that Ms Gosiame Sithole had given birth to 10 babies on June 7. Since then, a series of events have unfolded, involving Ms Sithole, me as the editor of Pretoria News and the author of the stories, and my employer Independent Media.

The latest event is the statement issued by the Gauteng government on 23 June in which they informed the public that they have instructed the State Attorney's Office to litigate against me and Independent Media.

It is unusual for the government to litigate against the media. It is an infringement of media freedom, and suggests an attempt to intimidate me and the media in general from publishing the story.

I find it odd that multiple government agencies have a targeted campaign against myself and Independent Media when all they simply need to do is confirm the following: Did Ms Sithole attend any state and private sector hospitals to give birth to 10 babies. If so, which hospital, and where are the babies? Can they confirm if all the decuplets are alive, and if not, how many have survived?

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IDK what to think, but this stinks to high heaven....
I just hope that the babies (if there are babies) are fine...
 
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