Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department reported last month that 10 teenage girls were “critically missing.” But during a Capitol Hill panel discussion on the problem Wednesday, the talk was mostly of runaways. Scott, a hair salon owner who traveled from Baltimore to attend the session, pointed out another part of the story. “These kids are not just running away,” she told the discussion hosted by the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls. A day earlier, the men had tried to gain entry to her hair salon under the pretense of selling merchandise to patrons. “When you say connect with our local resources, I sit at the community meetings … What do I do now?” Scott asked panelists.

Source: Huffington Post April 27, 2017 01:18 UTC