“Right now, with so many children coming across the U.S. border from Mexico without adults it is difficult to get accurate reports of who is missing. And then you have sex trafficking and child exploitation often by adults who are also difficult to track.”
“Whatever your political views are, whether this is right or that is wrong, it still doesn’t hide the fact that we have to find these missing children.”
“Not only do we have to find them, but we want to reunify them with their families so it’s not a cycle of them leaving or staying missing. We want to find them and get them back where they need to be,” Witherspoon said.
Sharing resources, he explains, is vital when you look for individuals in a city like Las Vegas, where human trafficking can often go unnoticed.
Advocates
Byron Fassett, who worked with the Dallas Police Department, is now an Amber Alert trainer. Fassett says the families of missing people are often frustrated by the red tape and lack of information sharing about their case.
