So guys what's going on in the beautiful well I don't know I've never been there
state of Iowa you may have heard that over the course of July 20 1848 teens
and children went missing in that sounds strange to you well it does to me too
because that's a hell of a lot of people Iowa has a population of a little more
than three million people so 48 juveniles going missing in one month
that's a lot this frightening number came to attention as police are
currently searching for missing University of Iowa student Molly Tibbets
20 year old molly Tibbets was last seen jogging at 7:30 p.m. on the 18th of July
in Brooklyn Iowa air and k-9 units have been brought in and nothing has been
found so far roommates said she did not run away as she was excited for the
upcoming semester authorities have also cleared her boyfriend
she's still missing and there are no leads to her disappearance and it's this
case that brought the other 48 missing people that 48 missing children
basically to the media's attention why is the number so high concern has
morphed into rumors that make it appear as though every child who goes missing
is the victim of abduction or sex trafficking or there's some kind of
pedophile ring operating and kidnapping children tweets like these are spreading
like wildfire fueling concern that a sex trafficking
ring is operating off the i-80 in Iowa however these are unsubstantiated so 48
juveniles in one month is absolutely terrifying but the most tragic part is
this is nothing unusual those numbers are in line with historical records but
as with every story there's a lot more to it over the course of 2017 4311 Iowa
juveniles were reported missing the average that's 12 kids a day the
majority of missing children or teens are believed to have run away god only
knows what happens to them but why so many in Iowa specifically well maybe not
just there in nearby Nebraska over the course of 2017 six thousand five hundred
and twenty three juveniles were reported missing in Missouri over the course of
2017 it was seven thousand one hundred and
seventeen however by the end of 2017 in Missouri the number of unsolved
disappearances was reduced to 51 so of the 7170 who were reported missing over
the course of 2017 by the end of that year only 51 remained missing now don't
get me wrong 51 people missing in one year is quite a lot of people actually
but a huge huge number get solved across the USA in 2017
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it assisted law
enforcement on families with more than 27,000 cases of missing children the
averages are about 75 a day more than 9 in 10 were Runaways and one in seven of
those were likely victims of sex trafficking of those 88 percent we're in
the care of social services when they went missing so 48 teens and children
going missing over the course of July this July is tragic but what's even more
tragic is that it is nothing out of the ordinary now it should be noted that a
lot of these cases are solved relatively quickly
for example this list of missing persons provided alongside the 27th of July 2018
Iowa DPS statement had changed significantly in the three days after it
was posted the list initially included 37 individuals but 13 of those names had
already been removed from the list indicating those cases had already been
resolved even still that's only 1/3 but that's only three days but as in
Missouri it's very likely that a huge number will be solved
hopefully thanks for watching Mike out