Missing Children

Reports are that approximately 200 children are missing each year in Jamaica. On the local television stations each night pictures of missing children are aired. Where are these children? How could they drop off the face of the earth? Police indicates that the missing children are sent to the countryside by mothers and grandmothers to get away from the dons in garrison communities. This reasoning may be in a few cases. However, in such a small island surely so many of these children would be seen wherever they are sent since local media is prevalent throughout the island. Police officers need to do their job in finding the root of the cause so that the situation does not continue to occur.  Certainly such indifference by local authorities on missing and murdered children would not occur if these were the children of wealthy or prominent families and politicians as no stones would be left unturned. More steps must be taken to find out what is happening to Jamaican children.