3,000 school children unaccounted for
School, state, law enforcement officials investigating
Posted 8/18/20
By Rose Cisneros
Special to the Chronicle
More than 3,000 children have not been heard from since schools closed in March.
The Department of Social Services is enlisting the …
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3,000 school children unaccounted for
School, state, law enforcement officials investigating
Posted
By Rose Cisneros
Special to the Chronicle
More than 3,000 children have not been heard from since schools closed in March.
The Department of Social Services is enlisting the help of law enforcement to find those that schools have been unable to contact since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Department of Social Services is enlisting the help of law enforcement to find those that schools have been unable to contact since the beginning of the pandemic.
Lexington County Sheriff's Department Captain Adam Myrick said they have not helped locate children here but are ready when asked.
In June, WIS News reported an SC Department of Education survey was unable to contact more than 16,000 students.
By July, the list was down to 3,182 students.
DSS spokesperson Connelly-Anne Ragley told WIS the list was sent to the department's county offices where staffers and law enforcement will begin checking the last known address of the students.
"To begin an on the ground, hands-on, boots on the ground, working to find these children," she said.
Executive Director Jarrod Bruder said time matters when ensuring the safety of children, and deputies will be working diligently to locate the students.
“I don’t want to necessarily sound the alarm and give everybody the impression that 3,000 children are being abused or in harm's way necessarily/
In June, WIS News reported an SC Department of Education survey was unable to contact more than 16,000 students.
By July, the list was down to 3,182 students.
DSS spokesperson Connelly-Anne Ragley told WIS the list was sent to the department's county offices where staffers and law enforcement will begin checking the last known address of the students.
"To begin an on the ground, hands-on, boots on the ground, working to find these children," she said.
Executive Director Jarrod Bruder said time matters when ensuring the safety of children, and deputies will be working diligently to locate the students.
“I don’t want to necessarily sound the alarm and give everybody the impression that 3,000 children are being abused or in harm's way necessarily/
"It may be but we have to do more investigation to figure that out,” he said.
The DSS memo stated the department plans to publish an update on the investigations by the 1st week of September.
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