Washington Post:
Eight weeks after Hurricane Katrina separated mothers from children and brothers from sisters, there are still more than 1,500 cases of "fractured families" that have not been reunited, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Although every child found alone in a shelter has been reunited with family members, 1,549 children, out of the 4,775 hurricane-related child separations reported to the center, are still being sought by one or both parents or other relatives, center officials said.
And the painstaking work of tracing families spread across 48 states is not getting any easier.
"We've resolved almost 66 percent of those cases," said Ben Ermine, executive director for case management operations at the center. He said that number includes 100 Hurricane Rita-related cases, 73 of which have been resolved. "But the reason for all these remaining cases," he added, "is that children have been scattered all over the country, and to track them down is a very difficult process."
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