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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mom-and-3-month-old-baby-missing-from-dc-since-late-december/3507123/?amp=1

Lately for some reason my instagram feed is full of missing people, mostly children. [b]How many DMV people per month or year go missing and are not found?[/b]

From what I’ve heard before, with children, it is often the non-custodial parent taking the child which leads to the missing child report. I assume those are usually resolved with a safe child. Sometimes it is an elderly person with dementia or a runaway teen. A couple times a suicidal person in midlife. All of it is distressing. But in this case, a woman and baby?  I hope she and the baby are found safe. [/quote]

In DC, very very few. missing.dc.gov lists them and says that over 99% of missing person cases are closed, often very quickly. That doesn't always mean the person is found alive, unfortunately. From 2018-2022 there were a total of 7 people who were reported missing whose cases haven't been closed (I'm not counting 2023 since some of the people have not been missing very long). Of the 7, one was experiencing a mental health crisis and may have died by suicide, and one was an infant whose mother said he died and she threw the body out but it was never found (and the mother was subsequently murdered by the baby's father).  I don't know enough about the other 5 to say, but suffice it to say stranger abduction is extremely extremely rare and when people go missing that usually isn't why.

I too hope the mother and baby here are safe. Postpartum mental illness and sleep deprivation can be a very serious combination--not saying that's the case here but I hope they are found healthy and soon.[/quote]

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