Missing Children Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research

Updated 1743 GMT (0143 HKT) May 10, 2020

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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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