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Missing children

OJJDP Launches Children's Justice Project

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

OJJDP and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) have launched the Children's Justice Project to identify the remains of youth and children across the country who have been found deceased but never identified. The National Institute of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System reports an estimated 1,000 cases of unidentified children remain unresolved.

NCMEC will commit approximately $2 million of its...