Every day in the United States, around 2,300 children are missing, according to Child Find of America , while in the United Kingdom, Missing People says roughly 75,000 youngsters go missing each year. In February 2008, British mother-of-seven Karen Matthews faced what is arguably every parent's worst nightmare : Her daughter Shannon did not come home from school.

Immediately, the close-knit community of Dewsbury Moor in West Yorkshire rallied round the family, searching relentlessly for the schoolgirl and campaigning to keep her story firmly in the public eye. Meanwhile, at the center of a media storm, Karen Matthews tearfully begged for Shannon to come home. The case (which echoed that of Madeleine McCann, who had been abducted in Portugal less than a year before) captured the Brit

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