This is another follow up post to V for Vanished – Virginia’s Missing Children (2017) where we explored the alarming rates of missing children in the state of Virginia.
Data from 2016 and 2017 show that Virginia has an extremely high rate per 100,000, surpassing the rates for states with much larger populations such as California and New York.
While manually recording the numbers of missing children in Virginia for 2017, over the course of one month, I noticed that many of the profiles were disappearing from the Virginia page.
This post focuses on profiles that were featured on the NCMEC official website that have now completely disappeared from the listings.
Lost and Found?
There are a number of profiles that were counted while compiling the list of missing in Virginia for 2017 that have since disappeared from the NCMEC website.
Although I thought this to be odd, I rationalized that a number of the missing children had probably returned home.
Yet, if this were the case wouldn’t there be some kind of announcement celebrating their return? I didn’t find any such announcements on the website but I also decided to scan their Twitter page as well.
Similarly, there were no Tweets announcing the safe return of any missing children from Virginia. There were, however, half a dozen Missing Child Recovered announcements from Texas, North Carolina, Missouri, Alabama and New Mexico.
Missing NCMEC Profiles of Missing Children
Madyson Adamov
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: September 24th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Janae Ballard
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Virginia Beach, VA
• Missing Since: June 2nd, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017 - Missing Profile
Victoria Blow
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: August 27th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Mackenzie Bolling
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: White
• Missing from: Waynesboro, VA
• Missing Since: September 27th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Lexi Bowden
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14
• Race: White
• Missing from: Fairfax, VA
• Missing Since: September 20th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Tiffany Bowman
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Charlottesville, VA
• Missing Since: September 13th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Nikya Boykins
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Chesapeake, VA
• Missing Since: September 17th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Kalea Bristol
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: September 2nd, 2017
Search November 15th, 2017 - Missing Profile
Emanye Brown
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Portsmouth , VA
• Missing Since: July 19th, 2017
November 15th, 2017 - Missing Profile
Sayda Burgos-Rodriguez
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Alexandria, VA
• Missing Since: May 10th, 2017
November 15th, 2017 - Missing Profile
Tamara Caddell
• Sex: Female
• Age: 13
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Hampton, VA
• Missing Since: August 9th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Olivia Cervantes
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: White
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: August 2nd, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Keyanisti Chattoo
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Virginia Beach, VA
• Missing Since: July 17th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Tanaiya Childress-Burton
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Richmond, VA
• Missing Since: August 13th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Thelma Coreas Cazares
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Herndon, VA
• Missing Since: September 24th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Keishyra Corprew
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: September 21st, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Mia Cox
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15
• Race: White
• Missing from: Fairfax, VA
• Missing Since: September 27th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Semaja Ellis
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Williamsburg, VA
• Missing Since: September 18th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Natalie Escamilla
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15
• Race: White
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: September 1st, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Saida Fagiry
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Henrico, VA
• Missing Since: September 9th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Uniqua Ford
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Chesapeake, VA
• Missing Since: February 25th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Karla Galvez
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Fairfax, VA
• Missing Since: August 2nd, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Katlyn Gray
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14
• Race: White
• Missing from: Luray, VA
• Missing Since: July 12nd, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Saria Gilliam
• Sex: Female
• Age: 12
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Portsmouth, VA
• Missing Since: September 23rd, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Sharadana Harrison
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Prince George, VA
• Missing Since: September 26th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Jyecora Holloway
• Sex: Female
• Age: 12
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: September 19th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Houston-Lee Pingley
• Sex: Male
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Winchester, VA
• Missing Since: October 4th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Nasir Hunter
• Sex: Male
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Missing Since: September 13th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Fasiyyah Jones
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Amelia, VA
• Missing Since: Sep. 27th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Aniyah Joseph
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Chesterfield, VA
• Missing Since: August 14th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Makayla Kucera
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: White
• Missing from: Virginia Beach, VA
• Missing Since: September 8th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Alyssa Lizardi
• Sex: Female
• Age:
• Missing from: Norfolk, VA
• Race:
• Missing Since: September 11, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Janeice Mcnair
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Henrico, VA
• Missing Since: September 29th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Margen Napoles
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Alexandria, VA
• Missing Since: March 7th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Tamyah Quarles
• Sex: Female
• Age: 5
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Henrico, VA
• Missing Since: April 1st, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
Jennifer Jovel Rivas
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: White
• Missing from: Fairfax, VA
• Missing Since: June 23rd, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Juliet Sandoval
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14
• Race: White
• Missing from: Harrisonburg, VA
• Missing Since: September 30th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Karina Henriquez Sandoval
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Hispanic
• Missing from: Bristow, VA
• Missing Since: August 19th, 2017
Search on November 15th, 2017
Missing Profile
Raea Weaver
• Sex: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: White
• Missing from: Virginia Beach, VA
• Missing Since: August 28th, 2017
Search on November 15th
2017
Missing Profile
39 profiles disappeared/removed from NCMEC website
37 of 39 profiles disappeared/removed from NCMEC website are female
19 of 39 profiles from Norfolk/Virginia Beach region
19 of 39 profiles "No Photo Submitted by Investigative Agency"
There has to be some kind of mistake here, right?
How's it possible that this many profiles have been removed in the last month and a half with NO indication that any of these teens have been found or returned to their families or homes?
Why are there so many missing children without a photograph?
Which Investigative Agencies are not submitting photos, and for what reasons?
Picture Them Home® is the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®'s ongoing campaign to raise awareness about the power of photos and their importance in the search for missing children. Because photos have such a vital role in the search for missing children, it is NCMEC's goal to distribute posters to as broad an audience as possible.
The familiar saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" is proven true time and again by the return of missing children who have been identified through this campaign.
Searching Names
Searching for the names of the missing teens who have had their profiles removed does give some returns to the NCMEC's own website. However, the links are either dead or we received a Page Not Found notice. When the links to the NCMEC do work those it takes you to the main Virginia profile page BUT the profiles no longer appear on the page.
Furthermore, including "found" in the search query does not bring up any results that would indicate that these individuals have in fact been located.
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Discrepancies / Inaccuracies
Along with the disappearance of profiles there are profiles that disappear and reappear with conflicting information. Most notably, the date the child goes missing changes. Sometimes the dates are weeks apart and other times months apart.
Aiyonnah Butler
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Chesterfield, VA
• Missing Since: September 22nd, 2017 | November 3rd, 2017
Dekaiyla Booker
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16
• Race: Black
• Missing from: Prince George, VA
• Missing Since: September 23rd, 2017 | November 9th, 2017
What Does This Tell US?
A very disturbing picture has emerged form the 2017 data collected from Virginia's missing children profiles.
- Rates per 100,000 are extremely high in Virginia (2016 & 2017)
- The Norfolk / Virginia Beach region appears to be the epicenter of missing children in VA
- DHS / ICE / Authorities recognize that the region is a hotbed for human trafficking
- African Americans seem to make up a disproportional number of the missing
- Teenage girls ages 15-17 are high risk
- The number of missing Virginian children / teens in October is off the charts.
- Investigative Agencies are not providing photos of missing children to the public (particularly in VA)
- Young attractive teenagers appear to be targeted
- Profiles of the missing are disappearing from the NCMEC's website
- Since dozens of profiles are disappearing from the website, the total amount of missing children is distorted/inaccurate
- There are no Amber Alerts issued for the alarming number of children reported missing in VA
Images: Wallpapercraft, missingkids.org, Twitter.com
Wow truly epic post, thanks for compiling this data, I will send credit your way when I cover this article.
Thank you @titusfrost, i would encourage others to look at the ncmec profile pages for changes and anomalies.
Though I didn't really touch on it in this post, it seems that the total numbers in Virginia are being suppressed/fudged/distorted. If this is true, what does that mean for the other states, are profiles being removed from those pages as well?
There could be some legitimate reasons for the profiles being removed like: false reporting and children that have returned home.
BUT, if that's the case why do they not notify the public that these kids have come home safely?
Wouldn't this be an ideal way to promote the good work done at the ncmec? I don't get it.
Even if there's some rational explanation it still doesn't explain the extremely high rates of missing children in Virginia overall (see part 1).
Thanks for the resteem and for your continuing efforts in this field
This has chilled me right to the bone. I have tears in my eyes. Thank you for doing this valuable research @v4vapid, I'm so grateful to you for putting this on the blockchain where it cannot be tampered with. Of course I have the worst feelings about what is happening to the missing :'( :'( You are holding the NCMEC accountable! I want to hear their answers to your questions.
The ncmec needs to be more forthcoming in providing comprehensive information and statistics to the public. They boast of integrating their advanced data analytics tools from both Google and Palantir and yet they cannot provide the most basic information. It's a fucking joke.
When I discovered that so many profiles were going missing, I was dumbstruck.I would also like to hear them explain how this happens, specifically what happened to these 39 individuals. Did they come home or not?
Excellent research. Kudos to you for doing the work and holding them accountable! Far too often we trust what we see, but nobody digs any deeper. You dig and for that I AM grateful! Bravo to you.
This is a deep DEEP problem and one I've been watching for many years. Since about 1993 in fact. There is quite a connection between missing children, Child Protective Services, family court AND the welfare agencies. At least in the one state where I worked.
What I have concluded is that many of these "missing children" were in families that qualified for public assistance. In my thinking, this is because these are the families that have the least ability to afford lawyers, investigators and money to fight the system and to EXPOSE the system.
There are children in foster care that have simply disappeared, (case records and all). So it stands to reason that those sitting in these "perceived" seats of power will simply alter the statistics and remove what is necessary to save face (and prosecution).
The high number of missing children will add funding to continue their supposed "high value" work pretending to search for these same missing children. But when it all plays out, they have received their federal dollars and they are starting to be exposed as potential "exploiters of children" they simply shift gears and downsize the statistics accordingly.
If this process was all above board you can bet your life on it that it would be all over the news about how great the work they've done in finding these "lost" children because this would show the "need" in continuing their efforts and the "need" for more funding to do their "excellent" work. Would be interesting to see their response to a FOIA request wouldn't it?
Here is a pretty good overview of Palantir's capabilities if anyone is unfamiliar with it:
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/
Needless to say, the kind of inconsistencies shown here can not be chalked off as incompetent errors. Something fishy is going on.
Thanks for the link, it is important that people realize just how powerful this software really is. With this kind of data analytics, it really is hard to believe they can be this incompetent.
Absolutely, where are they??!
I'm sharing this article around the web.
Good grief mate, seeing the faces makes it all so real.
So many families devestated and I would suggest many of them forever. When are the authorities going to get off their arses and do something about this dreadful situation? The child sex trafficking is getting more press and behind the scenes arrests are supposed to be going on, however it's not enough. The world should be up in arms considering the numbers and the fact that the US is supposed to be a civilised country.
Great work bringing this to the attention of Steemit and putting it in the blockchain so it can never ever be denied.
Resteemed buddy, the more folks that see this the better.
EDIT, I just saw your transfer. Thanks a lot dude, glad you liked it. 😉
Have you tried reverse searching any of the missing kids pictures? Might turn up something. Also maybe it's worth emailing the Missing kids org and ask for a reply to your research.
No, I haven't. I think you're right and it's worth a shot. I'll give it a go, however the photos are my own screenshots so perhaps i'd have to re-edit the screens and then see if it gives any results. Before contacting the ncmec I want to be certain of my findings.
Jeezuz, the f*ck man... Do you remember that girl they found naked and strangled on the property of Buckingham Palace years ago? After 2 days of reporting, nothing else was mentioned and to this day... still nothing. Its as if she 'almost' escaped, but...
Yeah, I do vaguely remember that, probably shows how effective they are at covering up these kinds of things.
Was the naked man climbing out the window at Buckingham Palace real or some kind of hoax?
To see these poor children and to look at their profiles really brings it home. Equally not being able to look at many of the pictures in these profiles raises both suspicion and a multitude of questions. Once again I commend your diligence in putting all this information together, I know how long it must have taken you! Whilst many profiles appear to be disappearing to have these childrens names and faces held in perpetuity within the blockchain gives them all some much needed exposure!
Equally it exposes that there is something profoundly wrong within this system. If google has deepmind plus (alongside palantir) world leading analytic technology and facebook has military grade facial recognition capabilities then what the hell is happening? I think I'll leave that question hanging so people can draw there own conclusions!
Thanks again @v4vapid you have my utmost respect for all the work you've put into this!
I've been extremely suspicious of these people since The Honeybee started linking them to the Podesta family late last year, or early this year.
This is some scary ass shit. Having lived in a relatively safe country for the last few years, I have become a be naive to this situation and it is refreshing(in a sick and twisted way) to be reminded that the human trafficking industry and exploitation industry is big and powerful. The question becomes, who can you trust, who has been paid off and what is actually happening to the victims. This sounds like a story that could take years of work to get to the bottom of. Thanks for bringing it to the publics attention
It seems to me this kind of information should be put on the Steem blockchain.
Yes, this is one of the main motivations of this series, to document the findings on the blockchain.
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This is pretty alarming. I had no idea that the numbers were so high, and especially odd to have such large numbers in VA.
Also the pictures play a huge part in finding missing people, the more the better! Why are there so many missing persons reports without pictures?! Geez!
Great article! Keep up the good work over there!
Thanks for reading and your support man, I know the topic isn't everyone's cup of tea but I feel it's important to question wtf is going on here.
Holly cow! That's so scary.... there is a cover up. They are all so young too... I saw one was only 5 years old :(
This is crazy ;
I have been doing research on the number of Holistic doctors that have gone missing or been killed ( most are ruled as suiside with impossible circumstances like 2 shots to the head ? )
The number seems to have no end .
I've heard only a little bit about the holistic doctors how many have been have been killed?
If I recall, I think I heard about a female doctor who was killed with her entire family.
If you've made or make a post about it, feel free to leave a link in the comments here.
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Thank you, much appreciated :)
Wow... that's really scary and weird...good work @v4vapid!
Impressive research, although extremely troublesome.
Thanks for sharing
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dude this was not the post to get into in the middle of the night. I have fricken chills.
Sorry about that, I tend to do that sometimes ;)
Man this is just fucking sad.
I have seen users put up missing people's profile on Imgur looking for help. Maybe that's one platform that can draw in more viewers.
Great work V
Thank you , I appreciate it.
Great job @v4vapid .
Thanks for sharing
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@v4vapid I am sorry you had to post this tragic news, but I am grateful you are researching and sharing this awful trafficking pattern... and what scares me most is having it happen on my own back yard
I’m fairly new to Steemit, but this will be the first post which I resteem - it must be shared
Say - Are you from Virginia! I’m in Delaware - We should organize a Cryptocurrency / Steemit Meetup