Pagie Reed's family reported her missing during the free movie showing at Riverfront Park Friday night. She was found today.

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Missing girl found

Published 12:48pm Saturday, June 30, 2012
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Alicia Reed and her family are breathing a sigh of relief today after her 14-year-old daughter was found.

Paige Reed, a Ring Lardner student, went missing at approximately 9:30 p.m. Friday while attending the free movie showing at Riverfront Park with her family.

Alicia said her daughter “was mad and had got into a little bit of trouble.”

Alicia went into the Wonderland theater for snacks, and when she returned outside, Paige was gone.

The community quickly rallied around the family, distributing missing person fliers in Riverfront Park and to downtown merchants. Facebook buzzed with the news as users shared the flier on the social networking site.

“My whole family and friends were out there with fliers,” Alicia said. “It was wonderful.”

Paige was found midday Saturday.

“I went to this boy’s house and had gotten the runaround there,” Alicia said. A neighbor who had seen Paige there tipped her off.

“She was there,” Alicia said.

Alicia contacted the Niles Police Department, but because Paige had not been missing for 24 hours yet, she was deemed a runaway. A police officer was not available for comment on the case.

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  1. June 30, 2012 at 1:11 pm <Link>

    I’m so glad she was found. Whew. A teenaged tizzy fit gone wrong. BUT—–found.

  2. June 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm <Link>

    I didn’t think that they had to wait 24 hours for a missing child!!!! Runaway or not!!!!! Anything could happen!!!!

  3. July 1, 2012 at 1:05 pm <Link>

    I am shocked that police are still waiting 24 hours for a child to be missing before they are respond. Although in this case it was a child who had simply taken off, what if it hadn’t been? After 24 hours the cases are more difficult to track. This law needs to be updated. I’d rather be searching for a runaway than a body.

  4. July 3, 2012 at 5:07 pm <Link>

    She was lucky. The FBI statistics on run aways show that most girls her age become victims of human traffickers with in 48 hours. The Manasseh Project a Grand Rapids Social Service agency that provides services to victims of human trafficking estimates that nearly 1100 girls between ages 12 to 15 were trafficked along the I-94 corridor between Illnois and Ohio in 2011. Once a girl falls into the hands of a human trafficker she will forced into prostitution. She will be dead with in 4 to 7 years.

    http://www.manassehproject.org/

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