04 June 2015
Missing Children South Africa has released figures of cases of reported missing children in the period from the 1st of June 2014 to the 31st of May 2015.
During this period 236 children
were missing and 173 were found, with adults 362 went missing and 222 were
found.
Missing Children SA’s Nicky
Rheeder said Gauteng 251, Western Cape 258 and KwaZulu Natal 31 were the
provinces with the most cases being reported to the organisation.
Meanwhile the month with the
most reported cases was October 2014 with 87 cases. During this period nine
children and 33 adults were found deceased.
Rheeder said for categories of
children going missing we have general and reasons unknown at 50.84%, runaway
cases was 45.34%, victims of crime for example hijacking 0.42%, stranger abduction
0.85%, parental or family abduction 1.27%, and confirmed human trafficking
cases 0.42%.
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