More than 250 Ohio children remained missing at the end of 2013, attorney general’s office reports | cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, OHIO — More than 250 children reported missing in Ohio in 2013 weren’t found by the end of the year, according to a new report from the Ohio attorney general’s office.

Of the 18,599 Ohio children reported missing in 2013, 18,338 – almost 99 percent – were recovered safely, according to Attorney General Mike DeWine’s annual Children Clearinghouse Report. Eight children were eventually found dead: Five were murdered, while three were killed in accidents.

The majority of the 261 children who remained missing are suspected runaways, the attorney general’s office said in a release. Including adults, there are currently more than 450 missing persons in Ohio.

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