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When migrant children disappear, many cases remain unsolved

CULPEPER, Virginia — Jessica Mariela Domingo-Méndez skipped breakfast the morning of Jan. 20, 2023, and ran out the front door of her sister’s house to catch the school bus. The 17-year-old never returned home. This story also appeared in Scripps News Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt’s home in the middle of the night on […]

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