Nearly 30 Children Reported Missing In Cleveland During First 2 Weeks Of May

Nearly 30 Children Reported Missing In Cleveland During First 2 Weeks Of May In Extraordinary Surge

Nearly 30 children have gone missing in Cleveland in the first two weeks of May, in an “extraordinary” surge of disappearances in the area, officials said.

Cleveland police said 27 kids have been reported missing between May 2 and May 16, as Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy warns that the disappearances have reached unprecedented levels in 2023.

“There’s always peaks and valleys with missing persons, but this year it seems like an extraordinary year,” Majoy, who serves as the board president of the Cleveland Missing nonprofit group, told Fox News.

 

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“For some reason, in 2023, we’ve seen a lot more than we normally see, which is troubling in part because we don’t know what’s going on with some of these kids, whether they’re being trafficked or whether they’re involved in gang activity or drugs.”

Majoy noted that a majority of the cases are runaways, but he feared some of the teenagers could’ve been victims of predators, who he likened to “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”