Antoinette Hamilton, 12, Marcayla Gardner, 12, and Annaya Fryer, 11, were discovered in New Jersey two days after staff at the Ittleson Center alerted authorities about their disappearance.
If a child is lost in a grocery store or other public place, and an adult offers to help the child find her parents by whisking her away from the public space, stop the event. It’s safest for the child to remain where she lost her parent. Security and staff there can make announcements and can watch the child. There’s no reason an adult should take a child away from the place she lost her parent to find that parent.