Unreported Missing Persons
This charity calls all Unreported Missing persons the "Kids Off The Grid" a term first coined by Libba Phillips.
The term applies whether the missing person is a child or an adult. "Unreported" means the missing person is not part of the National Crime Information Center database of missing persons.
People can become Kids Off The Grid or "unreported missing" for a variety of reasons, including:
- the lost/missing person may be estranged from family or friends.
- law enforcement may not take a "missing" report, or will stop investigations if they believe that the person is "voluntarily missing".
- the lost/missing person may be in this country illegally.
- the person may be an unknown dependent child of an unreported missing adult or teen.
- the person might be the victim of an undiscovered crime, such as the victims of serial killer Gary Ridgway.
Read more about this topic: Outpost For Hope
Famous quotes containing the words missing and/or persons:
“Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
“I have never yet spoken from a public platform about women in industry that someone has not said, “But things are far better than they used to be.” I confess to impatience with persons who are satisfied with a dangerously slow tempo of progress for half of society in an age which requires a much faster tempo than in the days that “used to be.” Let us use what might be instead of what has been as our yardstick!”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)