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Jenn M. JacksonYesha
3/13/17 2:16pm
This is such an important conversation. Thanks for this Yesha.
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JustPassingThroughYesha
3/12/17 6:38pm
Holy crap! I live in the DMV and haven’t heard about ANY of these missing teens.
They are all missing within a few days of each other. Is that normal? DC isn’t so big that the number of missing teens in a short amount of time would seem normal. But, I’m no expert.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZJustPassingThrough
  3/12/17 11:13pm
  I’m thinking WaPo needs to know that. They are your local paper, after all.
  Take it to David Farenthold, wave it in his face, and ask him to whose attention you should present it, given its urgency and the “fact that you also know he’s busy with matters of national significance”. Maybe even take another columnist with you. Call April Ryan’s office - she’s an HBCU alum - ask her who she’d recommend.
  #SignalBoost
  http://www.theroot.com/hmm-interesting-that-they-d-just-hold-on-to-the-in-1793206826
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MalcireYesha
3/12/17 4:41pm
This is heart breaking.
Is 10 a large number for a week?
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  AGPowellMalcire
  3/12/17 5:17pm
  Respectfully I say any number is two many>>>>>>>>>>>
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  RaulBadgertonAGPowell
  3/12/17 7:40pm
  1 is too many, but I think the question is would this be a larger than usual number? Not that this should matter, it should be covered, but that large a number seems to me like something concerted.
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AvocatoadYesha
3/12/17 7:30pm
Just sent a tip to Jezebel about this and then I saw The Root already reported it. I know there’s some crossover readership but it would’ve been nice if they had at least cross-posted this story. Thank you for drawing attention to these missing girls. I live near DC, and I’m so terrified for them. I found out on Tumblr there was also a girl in Baltimore, named Kennedi High, who went missing and posted this on her snapchat:
Police now think she may be in California.
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  CapucinaAvocatoad
  3/12/17 9:25pm
  https://www.google.ca/amp/www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-ci-missing-teenager-20170312-story,amp.html I don’t think the snaps are real. (Just from this article that says they aren’t and says she has no phone.) but what a sicko who made those fake snaps
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  AvocatoadCapucina
  3/13/17 8:51am
  Oh shit thanks for setting that straight. I’ll send a message to the person who originally posted it on Tumblr. That post has almost 76k notes too. I’m not sure how they came across the snaps but I hope they weren’t the ones who did that. Guess I’ll find out depending on how they respond.
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10110101101Yesha
3/12/17 6:43pm
According to a 2014 FBI report, a total of 239,593 minorities were reported missing in the United States.
Is there a statistic about how many of those kids show up again? Because I have a hard time believing that 25 times as many kids per capita permanently go missing in the US than in my country. Over here, 99% of the kids who are reported missing show up again, usually after a few days or weeks at most.
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  Jane Error10110101101
  3/12/17 8:19pm
  I couldn’t find these same FBI stats broken out by race with that information, but I did find an FBI source that said that in 2013, there were ~84,000 active cases, with ~630,000 new cases that year. So if the same trend holds true for non-white missing persons, that would be roughly 1/8 of the total, or ~30,000 people.
  https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/about-us/cjis/ncic/ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics-for-2013
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  10110101101Jane Error
  3/13/17 4:52pm
  That’s incredibly depressing. About 2.500 kids and teenagers remain permanently missing over here, with a population of 82 million. 84.000 cases with a population of 318 million translates to roughly nine times as many missing kids per capita.
  There’s no citizen’s ID card in the US, or a centralized population registry, and it’s a far bigger, far less densely populated country, so it’s a lot easier to disappear - either voluntarily, or involuntarily. And, given the prevalence of capital crimes that need solving, police simply don’t have the resources to look for these kids thoroughly - unless they’re pretty and white and make the news, of course, like Natalee Holloway.
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Flamingo83Yesha
3/12/17 5:44pm
If You Need Help 1 (888) 373-7888 is the National Human Trafficking Resource Center they speak over 200 languages and are open 24-7. Text 233733 online is trafficking resource center.org
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Cestrumnocturn1Yesha
3/12/17 8:42pm
DC police just tweeted they found Taylor Innis alive & well.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZCestrumnocturn1
  3/12/17 11:10pm
  Hmm.
  Interesting that they’d just ... hold on to the information till it was brought to greater public attention.
  Somebody call WaPo. And Tweet to all the columnists you know on the beat at the NYT. Charles Blow. Van Jones (@VanJones68 - let him redeem himself for that shameful post-Congressional address performance).
  #SignalBoost
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  Cestrumnocturn1Rooo sez BISH PLZ
  3/12/17 11:21pm
  No other info but that she’s alive & in good health. Maybe there will be more tomorrow. One alive isn’t great but its better than all dead.
  http://wric.com/2017/03/12/d-c-police-locate-missing-13-year-old-girl/
  There’s another one in her place.
  Amber Deshae Carter // 28yoa// last seen 3/10/17 in the 600 Blk of 11th St NE
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skefflesYesha
3/12/17 7:45pm
The tragic thing is, this is the first time I’ve even heard about sex trafficking in the DC area. Surely that ought to have been bigger news?
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vanfanusaYesha
3/12/17 5:46pm
Does anyone know DC well enough to know if the areas where these kids were last seen are all in the same general area or are they spread out?
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  cyanpineapplevanfanusa
  3/12/17 6:12pm
  Very spread out.
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  NetworkAFBvanfanusa
  3/12/17 6:28pm
  Been in DC 4.5 years and lived near two of the ‘last seen’ addresses listed. The whole group is pretty spread out, though a couple are near each other. I was asking the same question. Sad that these are all high school kids.
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K__Yesha
3/13/17 3:00am
I dont follow a b or c but i guess i follow good people on twitter who have retweeted. The only reason I even recognized this is the distinct yellow background. I thought something had gone viral or it was ads or something as so many (as indicated in the article) have been floating past my timeline the last week I just ignored as i can never truly keep up with my timeline anyway. When i see repeated things like that when I do try to catch up i just scroll past again assuming its something viral or an ad
This is disheartening to learn they are all missing people. ITs really sad and scary.. This really should be getting more news. The staggering number in a week ago seems to indicate something extra nefarious is going on. A serial killer/kidnapper or something..I know people go missing everyday but THIS MANY!! in the same week? in the same city?? something bigger is going on than standard missing person
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