Officials said they discovered a 3-year-old girl wandering the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, according to reports.
Destiny was discovered at East 124th Street and Locke Avenue by Cleveland police, who added that they were trying to find the girl’s guardians.
They said she wasn’t wearing winter clothing when they found her.
Temperatures in Cleveland dropped to below freezing on Feb. 10.
Destiny was taken in by social workers of the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services.
People with information about the girl are being asked to call the kids hotline at 216-696-5437.
Other details about the girl were not provided.
She was discovered just a few blocks from Lake Erie.
It comes weeks after a 4-year-old girl was discovered wandering around the streets of Detroit while searching for her parents.
Missing Children in the United States
There were 464,324 missing children reported in the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) in 2017, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.Under federal law, when a child is reported missing to law enforcement authorities, they must be entered into the database. In 2016, there were 465,676 entries.
“This number represents reports of missing children. That means if a child runs away multiple times in a year, each instance would be entered into NCIC separately and counted in the yearly total. Likewise, if an entry is withdrawn and amended or updated that would also be reflected in the total,” the center said.
In 2017, the center said it had assisted officers and families with more than 27,000 missing children. In those cases, 91 percent were endangered runaways and 5 percent family abductions.
Nancy McBride, the executive director of Florida Outreach at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said most of the runaways involve technology.
About one in seven children reported missing to the center in 2017 were likely to be victims of child sex trafficking, the center said.
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