DANA ORTIZ - 13 yo(2010) - Aurora (E of Denver) CO /TX alerted

Denver CO ---- The numbers are shocking: nearly 12,000 children are reported
missing each year in Colorado.
Shallon Caldwell, with the Missing Children Task Force said May of 2009
was a typical month. More than 1200 kids were reported missing. Of
those, 945 were runaways. Another 279 were children were got lost or
came home late. There was one non custodial parental kidnapping, but no
stranger kidnappings.
Caldwell said that just because a child is a runaway does not mean they
are not in danger. "They're in a lot more danger than people realize
when they're on the streets," she said.



The latest child to be added to Colorado's Missing and Exploited
Children website is 13-year-old Dana Ortiz. Her mother said the teen was
depressed and suffered from anxiety.
When Dana recently became suicidal, they voluntarily signed her into a
group home, through Denver's Child Protection Services, but she says
Dana ran away June 15 with an older teen from the home.
Dana's mother is worried that, without her medication, Dana may try to
commit suicide.
"All I know is I want my little girl back," she said. "I love her and
want her to come home."
She said Dana has run away before, but never for this long and never
without contacting her friends. But this time, it's been nearly two
weeks and there's been no sign of her daughter.
"I go out and look for her at the 16th Street Mall, I walk around, I go
to the skate park where kids hang out." she said through tears adding,
"Wherever she's at, I'm hoping she makes her way home."
Caldwell says there are not enough resources to provide the kind of help
the children and their families need.
The Missing Children Task Force is holding fund raisers this weekend.
There is a motorcycle poker ride followed by a race at the Colorado
National Speedway Saturday night, and on Sunday, a friendly competition
between police and firefighters called "Guns and Hoses" at Infinity
Park in Glendale.
For more information you can go to www.childfinders.org

:O( No new updates. Unfortunately Colorado has a BIG, mexican population, a lot of illegals. I learned this recently because of relatives that live there. A lot of this population goes by several names so it's hard to find somebody, especially if they don't want to be found.
Sad situation.

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