Three missing children originally from Missouri were found in Texas along with their mother after they were allegedly abducted in 2017, officials said.
The children were all under the age of 8 when Rodriguez allegedly took them and disappeared in 2017. She was reportedly heading from their Missouri home to California at the time, the report noted.
Months later, they determined that she and the three children were living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Marshals and local police discovered Rodriguez and the three children living in Arlington, Texas. She was taken into custody and is awaiting extradition to Missouri.
The children were taken into care by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. They will later be reunited with their father, who was not named.
Officials did not reveal how they located Rodriguez and her children.
Missing Persons
Over 600,000 people go missing in the United States every year, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. Many of the missing adults and children are found safe but others are never found or are found dead.“It is estimated that 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered each year, with approximately 1,000 of those bodies remaining unidentified after one year,” the center stated.
As of Oct. 18, there were 16,822 open missing person cases in addition to 13,022 open unidentified person cases.
Approximately 151,000 missing person records were entered but about the same number were removed.
“Reasons for these removals include: a law enforcement agency located the subject, the individual returned home, or the record had to be removed by the entering agency due to a determination that the record is invalid,” the center stated.
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