National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life

Google has a zero-tolerance policy for child abuse content. The scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as abusers.

After 65 Years, the ‘Boy in the Box’ Has a Name

Detective work and DNA analysis helped officials learn the identity of a 4-year-old boy whose beaten body was found inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957. The killing remains unsolved.

A Baby Abduction, a DNA Match and a Tearful Reunion 51 Years Later

A Fort Worth woman learned she was “Baby Melissa,” the focus of a decades-long search. “I finally have a mother and a father that want me,” she said.

A Girl Survived a Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan. Then She Vanished in Texas.

Lina Sardar Khil was 3 when she barely escaped a terrorist attack during the fall of Afghanistan. While living in San Antonio, she went out to play — and has not been seen since.