150+ missing Kids located in NC

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Over 150 missing and runaway children have been located in North Carolina as part of Operation Carolina Homecoming, a collaborative effort between Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and federal agents.

Wednesday, a number of the juveniles “were discovered to have been engaged in high-risk activities such as prostitution and narcotics activity,” and several were “victims of human trafficking.”


Kids don’t need to be living alone in hotels, kids don’t need to be living alone with an older partner,” .

The department said 130 minors were found prior to the operation, and between April and May ,27 more children were located by two-person teams comprised of CMPD’s Missing Person Unit detectives, U.S. Marshals and Department of Public Safety officers.

The CMPD uses partnerships with Atrium Health Levine Children’s, Path’s Place Child Advocacy Center, the North Carolina ISAAC Fusion Center and Mecklenburg County Child Protective Services to assist with the children after they were recovered.

Dr. Stacy Reynolds from Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital said the facility found kids rarely intend to engage in harmful or criminal activities.



Even if a kid goes out there with good intentions that they’re going to stay on the straight and narrow, it doesn’t take very long to get cold and hungry and succumb to the pressure of somebody who knows just how to time their effort into manipulate you into activity you maybe otherwise wouldn’t have wanted to be apart of,” Reynolds said.



Now, social and health professionals are helping the children stay away from the dangerous lifestyles they temporarily engaged in.

“We’re proud of what we were able to do for the community through this,” McNelly said, adding that the cases of human trafficking are under investigation.


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