{"id":1942844,"date":"2023-06-02T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-chief-sounds-alarm-after-27-kids-disappear-in-two-week-span\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:56:40","slug":"police-chief-sounds-alarm-after-27-kids-disappear-in-two-week-span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-chief-sounds-alarm-after-27-kids-disappear-in-two-week-span\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Kids Vanish in Two Weeks, Police Chief Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-chief-sounds-alarm-after-27-kids-disappear-in-two-week-span%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1942844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Police Chief Sounds Alarm After 27 Kids Disappear in Two-Week Span<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor some reason, in 2023, we\u2019ve seen a lot more than we normally see, which is troubling in part because we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with some of these kids, whether they\u2019re being trafficked or whether they\u2019re involved in gang activity or drugs,\u201d Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dozens-kids-vanish-cleveland-area-police-probe-alarming-trend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The number of 12- to 17-year-old children who went missing in the vicinity of Cleveland last month is \u201ctroubling,\u201d according to Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy. \u201cIt\u2019s a silent crime that happens right under our noses,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem is where are they? Where do they go? They can be in a drug house or farmed to prostitution or caught up in drug trafficking or gangs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Growing Concern<\/h3>\n<p>Majoy\u00a0is also the board president of Cleveland Missing, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-chief-sounds-alarm-after-27-kids-disappear-in-two-week-span\/\" title=\"27 Kids Vanish in Two Weeks, Police Chief Worried\">nonprofit \u201coffering direct support<\/a> for families and friends searching for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/final-missing-person-recovered-in-surfside-tragedy\/\" title=\"Final Missing Person Recovered In Surfside Tragedy\">missing loved<\/a> ones,\u201d according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandmissing.org\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s always peaks and valleys with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-dead-10-injured-after-tornado-hits-n-c\/\" title=\"3 dead, 10 injured after tornado hits N.C.\">missing persons<\/a>, but this year it seems like an extraordinary year,\u201d Majoy, a 33-year police veteran, told Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Fox reported that 27 area residents under the age of 18 went missing between May 2 and May 16. Cleveland Police records show another 25 youths on its missing persons roster who disappeared between May 17 and May 31.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fox said most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-employs-offensive-language-about-texas-miss-reopening\/\" title=\"Biden employs offensive language about Texas, Miss. reopening\">missing children<\/a> were more likely to be runaways than victims of kidnapping, but that didn\u2019t necessarily make them any safer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Dangers of Vulnerability<\/h3>\n<p>Vulnerable teens may find themselves susceptible to predators and be too naive to recognize their danger. They may also join gangs, become involved in prostitution to get by or become dependent on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Majoy said social media can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newlyweds-arrested-after-trying-to-board-cargo-ship-in-attempt-to-join-isis\/\" title=\"Newlyweds Arrested After Trying To Board Cargo Ship In Attempt To Join ISIS\">law enforcement\u2019<\/a>s \u201cgreatest asset\u201d when it comes to locating missing children. Unfortunately, that tool is less useful when photographs of the juvenile aren\u2019t available, which is often the case.<\/p>\n<p>Scrolling through Cleveland Police Missing Persons index, it\u2019s easy to note that fewer than half of the persons under 18 listed there had pictures on record. \u201cUnless someone knows that person [without a picture on file],\u201d Majoy told Fox, \u201cthen we\u2019re not going to have any luck.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Working to Find the Missing<\/h3>\n<p>Cleveland Missing, which was founded by Sylvia Colon and her cousin Gina DeJesus, who was abducted when she was 14 and remained in captivity for years, works with families of the missing as well as training law enforcement officers in how to help families and recovered victims.<\/p>\n<p>DeJesus\u2019 kidnapper, Ariel Castro, was sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years after agreeing to a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, Fox reported in 2016. Castro had been charged with 977 counts, including hundreds of counts of kidnapping, rape and assault.<\/p>\n<p>The house in which Castro held DeJesus and two other victims in the basement for nearly a decade was demolished as part of his plea agreement. Castro hanged himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell about a month into his sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the authorities. Let&#8217;s work together to keep our children safe.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland&#8217;s police chief expressed concern over the high number of missing children aged 12-17 in the area last month. 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