Last Missing Child Separated By Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Reunited With Family

Yesterday I called the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children to get an update on the over 5000 missing children from the Katrina and Rita disaster. I was referred to a press release dated March 17, 2006 in which the article stated that all of the missing children had been found. Here is a snippet from that article:

Since September 5, 2005 when NCMEC established the Katrina
Missing Persons Hotline (1-888-544-5475) at the request of the U.S. Department
of Justice, more than 34,112 phone calls have been logged related to separated
families and missing persons. The number of reports to NCMEC of children
separated from their families due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita resulted in a
total of 5,192 children.

In the months following Katrina, the agency received
reports of 4,710 children missing or displaced in Louisiana, 339 in Mississippi
and 39 in Alabama. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita resulted in a total of 5,192
children. After Rita, another 28 children were reported missing or displaced in
Louisiana; 76 were reported in Texas. More>>