AMBER ALERT: Black Press Joins Effort to Locate Missing Black Child 
ADVISORY: MISSING BLACK CHILD
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BARRIOS, age 6
Reward: $27,000
UPDATE: March 20, 2007 (BlackPressMagazine.com). Christopher was found in Georgia two days after Black Press Magazine posted the Amber Alert. He was murdered and sodomized prior to his death.
The Glynn County police chief says a six-year-old boy who had been missing for a week has been found dead. Police have arrested two men, David Edenfield and Donald Dale, who led police on a fruitless search in the woods beside the mobile home park. Police brought them back to look again in the daylight yesterday afternoon in a thicket of dense pines where the two men told investigators they had buried the boy. They had not found him when the search was suspended for the night.
The men were arrested on charges that they lied to police. Doering said the men were arrested because they first told police they knew nothing about the missing boy, then later claimed to know where his body was buried.
ADVISORY: MISSING BLACK CHILD
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BARRIOS, age 6
Reward: $27,000
Circumstances: Christopher was last seen walking to his home on March 8, 2007. The child is Biracial. He is Black and White. When Christopher was last seen he was wearing a blue or green shirt with a white shirt underneath it, black pants, and white tennis shoes. A $27,000 reward is being offered for the safe return of Christopher.
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BARRIOS
Case Type: Lost, Injured, Missing
DOB: Jan 2, 2001 Sex: Male
Missing Date: Mar 8, 2007 Race: Biracial
Age Now: 6 Height: 3'8" (112 cm)
Missing City: BRUNSWICK Missing State: GA
Weight: 65 lbs (29 kg)
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown Missing Country: United States
FACTS on BLACK MISSING CHILDREN:
Most curious is the discovery that 33% of missing-children records for 2005 were Black children, nearly three times Blacks' share of the general population. Previous estimates based on Finkelhor's studies and records at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children suggested that black children account for about a fifth of the nation's missing children.
"These are very interesting and important statistics," said sociologist David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. "This shows a pretty dramatic overrepresentation of Black kids."
The FBI data show that two-thirds of all missing-children reports were for 15-, 16- or 17-year-old youths. Only 2,223 infants were reported last year.
The files also show that local police classified 16,897 cases -- or slightly less than 3 percent -- as "endangered," meaning authorities feared the children had been kidnapped or were in the company of a dangerous adult.
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