By Katie Daviscourt – The Postmillennial
A recent investigation by The Columbus Dispatch has found that dozens of children have gone missing from a northeast Ohio city since 2014. Approximately 3.1 children per 1,000 residents of East Cleveland’s 13,792 population have disappeared in the past decade, a rate that surpasses that of Ohio’s largest cities, including Columbus and Cincinnati. The report attributed these alarming figures to the area’s poverty, rampant crime, and a local police force that is too corrupt and understaffed to concentrate on missing juveniles. Continue reading “43 children have gone missing from East Cleveland over last decade”