A missing 11-year-old girl from Colorado was found after going missing on Jan. 2.
The Colorado Springs Police Department said Holly Lopez was found Jan. 3, reported KOAA-TV.
She was reunited with her family, the report stated.
Officials did not provide any details how or where she was found.
Missing Children in the United States
There were 464,324 missing children reported in the FBI’s National Crime Information Center in 2017, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Under federal law, when a child is reported missing to law enforcement, 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 Likewise, if an entry is withdrawn and amended or updated, that would also be reflected in the total,” the center noted.
In 2017, the center said it assisted officers and families with the cases of more than 27,000 missing children. In those cases, 91 percent were endangered runaways, and 5 percent were family abductions.
Nancy McBride, the executive director of Florida Outreach at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said that most of the runaways involve technology.
And about one in seven children reported missing to the center in 2017 were likely victims of child sex trafficking, the center said.
President Donald Trump on Jan. 1 declared January as “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.”