Of the 418 people registered as missing this yearat least 398 have already been foundwhile the remaining 20, at least until August, would also have appeared, but the Police is in the process of verifying.
The head of the Divincri in Arequipa, Marco Cuadros also reported that, of this total, more than half, 227 reported as missing were minors and the remaining 191 were adults.
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From the figure of 227 minors, it is known that at least 54% are children or adolescents who ran away from home for different reasons such as lovers, violence, alcohol consumption, by contact with older people through social networks.
The cash assured that there were no cases of kidnappingexcept for one case of a foreign minor who was kidnapped in May by people engaged in human trafficking for prostitution, but was rescued.
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