Over 6,200 Missing Children Located, FBI Says

The agency has arrested more than 300 human traffickers and 1,700 child predators over the past year.

Officials search for missing children as part of "Operation Not Forgotten" in Georgia in August 2020. Courtesy of Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Marshals

The FBI has located more than 6,200 missing children and is “advancing the mission of protecting America’s children at a level never seen before,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a March 17 update about the agency’s “historic year” in 2025. The number of children recovered was more than 30 percent higher than the total in the previous year.

Of these, 2,700 were identified to be victims of child exploitation, the Department of Justice said.