Missing Children Fast Facts

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Updated 1249 GMT (2049 HKT) April 16, 2019

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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/02/ohio.missing.girls/index.html">Amanda Berry</a> vanished a few blocks from her Cleveland home on April 21, 2003. She was 16. On Monday, May 6, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/us/ohio-missing-women-found/index.html">she was found </a>with two other missing women blocks from where she disappeared. Click through to see more miraculous stories of lost children who were found months or even years later.
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Amanda Berry – Amanda Berry vanished a few blocks from her Cleveland home on April 21, 2003. She was 16. On Monday, May 6, she was found with two other missing women blocks from where she disappeared. Click through to see more miraculous stories of lost children who were found months or even years later.
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/02/ohio.missing.girls/index.html">Georgina "Gina" DeJesus</a> was found on May 6 with Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight in Cleveland. DeJesus was last seen in the Ohio city on April 2, 2004, on her way home from school. She was 14 when she went missing.
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Georgina DeJesus – Georgina "Gina" DeJesus was found on May 6 with Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight in Cleveland. DeJesus was last seen in the Ohio city on April 2, 2004, on her way home from school. She was 14 when she went missing.
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/us/ohio-rescued-women-bios/index.html">Michelle Knight</a> was the<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/ohio-rescued-women-timeline/index.html"> third of the three women who escaped</a> from a captor's house in Cleveland on May 6. She was last seen on August 22, 2002, when she was 21.
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Michelle Knight – Michelle Knight was the third of the three women who escaped from a captor's house in Cleveland on May 6. She was last seen on August 22, 2002, when she was 21.
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On June 5, 2002, when <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/25/utah.smart.sentencing/index.html">Elizabeth Smart</a> was 14, she was abducted from her bed, raped and held captive for nine months by Brian David Mitchell. On May 25, 2011, Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison.
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Elizabeth Smart – On June 5, 2002, when Elizabeth Smart was 14, she was abducted from her bed, raped and held captive for nine months by Brian David Mitchell. On May 25, 2011, Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison.
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/06/austria.natascha.kampusch.autobiography/index.html">Natascha Kampusch</a>, an Austrian woman, was held prisoner in a basement for eight years from the time she was 10. Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, beat her up to 200 times a week, manacled her to him as they slept and forced her to walk around half-naked as a domestic slave after kidnapping her in 1998. Kampusch escaped in August 2006. Priklopil committed suicide shortly thereafter.
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Natascha Kampusch – Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian woman, was held prisoner in a basement for eight years from the time she was 10. Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, beat her up to 200 times a week, manacled her to him as they slept and forced her to walk around half-naked as a domestic slave after kidnapping her in 1998. Kampusch escaped in August 2006. Priklopil committed suicide shortly thereafter.
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Eleven-year-old <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/justice/california-dugard-government-lawsuit/index.html">Jaycee Lee Dugard</a> was abducted in 1991 from outside her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was held by Phillip and Nancy Garrido in a hidden compound of sheds along with the two daughters to whom she subsequently gave birth. Dugard and her daughters were found in 2009.
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Jaycee Dugard – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted in 1991 from outside her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was held by Phillip and Nancy Garrido in a hidden compound of sheds along with the two daughters to whom she subsequently gave birth. Dugard and her daughters were found in 2009.
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/15/missouri.boys/index.html">Shawn Damian Hornbeck </a>spent more than four years with Michael Devlin, passing as his captor's son in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri. Shawn was 15 when he was found in 2007 and reunited with his family.
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Shawn Damian Hornbeck – Shawn Damian Hornbeck spent more than four years with Michael Devlin, passing as his captor's son in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri. Shawn was 15 when he was found in 2007 and reunited with his family.
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