factors presents children who were lost
for years then found number one Gregory
gene jr. Gregory genes jr. lived with
his father and his stepmother when he
was nine years old they pulled him out
of school telling his teacher that he
was going to be homeschooled instead for
the next four years his father and
stepmother held him captive in their
home his mother was a Haitian immigrant
and didn't know much about the system or
how to report someone missing she
contacted Child Protective Services but
she never called the police since a
police report was never filed no one
knew the boy was missing after four
years in captivity Gregory was able to
rig up a cell phone so he could send his
mother a friend request on facebook when
the police arrived at the home there was
no sign of Gregory he sent his mother
directions to his location and when the
police visited the home of second time
they found him hidden behind a false
wall he's lucky that his mother never
gave up on him number two amina ally
darshana kiki a few years ago the Boko
Haram stormed into an all-girls school
and kidnapped hundreds of girls one of
these girls was Amina a lead arsenic
Hecky the kidnapping made headlines all
around the world when time went on the
girls were not found and police around
the globe became angry two years after
the girls had been missing a local
vigilante group decided to do something
about it
when they thought they had an idea of
where some of the girls were they
brought Amina's mother and went to the
door as soon as the door opened and her
mother saw her face she hugged the
group's leader it took her two years to
see her daughter again and she was so
happy to have her back number three
Steven stainer Steven stainer was
kidnapped by a known pedophile when he
was seven years old after he was in
captivity for eight years his captor
abducted a younger boy this is what
Steven needed to attempt to escape the
two boys hitchhiked for over 40 miles
before they found a police
officer who helps to reunite voice with
their families sadly Steven only had
nine more years with his family when he
was 24 years old
he died in a motorcycle accident number
four Jaycee Dugard when Jaycee Dugard
was just 11 years old she was walking
her bike down the road when a car pulled
up on the side of her fill up in Nancy
Garrido got out of the car and shocked
her with a stun gun for the next 18
years they held her hostage in their
backyard she was living in a shed and
under tarps the entire time when she was
finally rescued the police were shocked
at how close to home she was the whole
time both Phillip and Nancy were
arrested and they will never get out of
prison today JC is using her story to
help inspire others she's even written
two books about her ordeal and her
journey to living a normal life again
number five tanya kak when kenya kak was
13 years old
she didn't have an easy life she lived
with her father and his girlfriend and
it wasn't the greatest situation for a
young girl
there was a 37 year old security guard
at school who Tanya became friendly with
when she told him about her home life he
encouraged her to run away from home
when she finally agreed she wished she
hadn't the security guard held her
captive in his room in his parents house
for 10 years eventually he started
trusting Kenya more and letting her go
out while she was supposed to be running
an errand she told a shopkeeper who she
was and that she was kidnapped and
needed help from the police finally she
was reunited with her family
number 6 Shawn Hornbeck Shawn Hornbeck
story is unlike many other kids stories
he was riding his bike down a gravel
road near his home in Missouri rather
than keeping Shawn locked away in hidden
he used fear and abuse to control him
while letting him out in public the
entire time Shawn was held captive for
four years when his captor brought home
another boy Shawn knew he had
away four days after the new boy arrived
they were found and rescued number seven
Carlina white when Carlina white was
just nineteen days old she was kidnapped
from a Harlem Hospital by a nurse
Carlina grew up thinking this woman was
her mother and that her name was
actually Nettie Nance she never learned
the truth about her abduction when she
was 23 when she was online looking at
photos of missing children she saw one
that looked so much like her that it
could be her daughter
in reality the photo was her her baby
picture when the truth came out about
who she really was a DNA test proved
that the woman she thought was her
mother all her life had kidnapped her
just a few years ago a lifetime movie
was made about this ordeal
according to Carlina it's difficult to
look at the woman who raised her as a
criminal regardless of how Carlina felt
her abductor was arrested and convicted
of kidnapping number 8 Steve Carter when
Steve Carter saw the story of Carlino
white all over the news he became
curious he'd always thought that
something in his life was off after
hearing harley knows story he went on a
website for missing children and he saw
a photo of himself it turned out that
his mother kidnapped him when he was
very young and she changed his name it
was originally marks Panama Barnes but
to keep him hidden from the world she
had to change his name when he found out
the truth about who he was he also found
out that his father had been searching
for him for 30 years at the same time he
was reuniting with his father his mother
was being arrested for kidnapping number
9 Natasha Ryan Natasha
disappeared from her home in Australia
when she was just 14 years old
four years later she reappeared a man
was on trial for her murder
after the police received a tip it led
them to the home of her boyfriend where
she was living the man was eight years
older than Natasha they were married and
they had a son together the only reason
that Natasha willingly came out of
hiding was to keep an innocent man
from going to jail number 10 Julian
Hernandez Julian Hernandez was kidnapped
by his father when his parents were
going through a nasty divorce and a
custody fight he was only five years old
when he was kidnapped therefore during
his entire childhood he had no idea he
had been abducted when he was 18 years
old he was applying for college it was
then that he realized the social
security number that his father gave him
was a fake he later found out that his
mother had been searching for him for 13
years number 11
chou-heung this is one story where the
child in question was not taken from
home against her will the girl actually
chose to leave home
chou-heung is a Chinese girl who was
only 14 years old she got into a fight
with her parents and she ran away from
home for the next 10 years she was
living and playing games in internet
cafes all over the country when she was
24 years old she was discovered by
someone who had seen her photo on a
website for missing children her story
is so unbelievable because for ten years
she lived on her own and nobody knew the
truth number 12
Connie McCallister when Connie
McAllister was 16 years old she was
living in Wisconsin and she was dating a
boy named Freddie Ruiz he talked her
into sneaking out of the house and
meeting him in Chicago when she got
there Freddie drugged her and drove her
to Mexico for the next nine years she
was trapped in Mexico with Freddie and
had to endure his abuse when she met
another man she thought that things
would get better unfortunately things
with him were not any better when Connie
was working at Walmart she met an
American missionary and Connie told her
what had happened to her this missionary
helped her find her way home and today
she is home and happily married number
13 the girls from Cleveland
of all the children who were lost for
years and found this case is one of the
most highly publicized between 2003 and
2013
a man named Ariel Castro kidnapped
Michelle Knight Amanda berry and Gina
DeJesus by tricking each girl to get
into his car he held them hostage in his
home he beat and raped the girls
regularly during this time he got Amanda
pregnant as she gave birth to a daughter
one day Castro was going for a ride with
his brothers and forgot to lock the
doors
it was Amanda's chance to escape she
couldn't get the door open completely
and a Good Samaritan came along and
helped her and her daughter to squeeze
out the door she went to a neighbor's
house hysterical begging to use the
phone when the police came they found
Amanda and her daughter who then told
her about Michelle and Gina in the house
next door
Castro pled guilty to a whole slew of
charges soon after his incarceration he
took his own life today the girls are
trying to rebuild their own lives
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