Three children missing Wednesday

Three children end up missing Wednesday in Rancho Cucamonga
Jannise Johnson, Staff Writer
Created: 02/20/2009 12:58:09 PM PST

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Three children were reported missing Wednesday in the city - providing investigating deputies with an out of the ordinary evening.
The Rancho Cucamonga station for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in 2007 responded to an average of one call a month for a missing child, and few of the calls required deputies to file a report, said Tracy Dorsey, spokeswoman for the sheriff's station.
"So three in one night is very unusual," Dorsey said.
The searches on Wednesday resulted in the Sheriff's Department setting up a command post and having to use a helicopter.
The children all returned home safely.
• A 10-year-old boy was reported missing about 5:30 p.m. from Ruth Musser Middle School in the 10700 block of Terra Vista Parkway, according to the release.
The boy told authorities he had been bullied at school and was afraid to take his usual route home. He decided to leave through a different gate, but became disoriented. The boy got scared and hid in bushes for seven hours. He was found by a resident in a nearby apartment to the north of the school, according to the news release.
• A 9-year-old boy was reported missing about 5:30 p.m. after he failed to return home from Cucamonga Elementary School in the 8600 block of Archibald Avenue. The boy decided to walk to his grandmother's house in Fontana after he could not get into his own house. No one was at the home and the doors were
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locked. The boy was returned to his mother unharmed.
• A 15-year-old developmentally-disabled girl had attended an after-school activity and forgot to tell her mother. She was reported missing at 7 p.m. from Etiwanda High School at 13500 Victoria St. and returned home an hour later, according to a sheriff's news release.
The Sheriff's Department used A Child is Missing to get the word out on the missing children. The Florida-based ACIM sends out a recorded message to city residents with information about the missing child. A Child is Missing was founded in 1997 because no community-based program existed for locating children, the disabled and the elderly during the first hours of their disappearance, according to the nonprofit's Web site.

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