Lately in Virginia, there has been an uproar of concern about missing kids, social media has been spreading the concern to all around the country, highlighting the fact that there has been no national news about this situation. Whether or not this whole situation is real or fake, it has definitely caused fear all around the nation. 

 As we all know, social media can spread false truth in a split second, and this concern has now been debunked by Virginia’s police departments, Matthew Demlin, a Public Relation Coordinator for the VSP stated “Virginia State Police is not investigating any reports of mass abductions in Virginia, nor is there evidence of mass abductions occurring in Virginia,”. 

Lots of these so-called missing kids have actually been noted as runaways, some not their first time being missing. 

In Virginia there also has been unsettling videos of ice cream trucks in the middle of the night, trying to get kids to leave their houses and go out to supposedly get some ice cream. This suspicious behavior isn’t particularly new, Ice cream trucks have been used for gangs, and drug related issues in the past, just have now been really put into the spotlight trying to intertwine it with all the missing cases. 

”Whether or not the whole abducting part is true, it definitely should still be a concern that there is so many runaways that just haven’t been resolved, imagine your child ran away and there is not even concern in the local news, it must be terrible,” Adiel Dawson (‘28) said. 

Whether or not these kids are indeed getting kidnapped by ice cream trucks, the problem stays the same. Missing Kids shouldn’t be a concern just because of social media, it should always be a concern because missing kids should not be something that happens as often as it does. Virginia is not the only state that has these concerns, it is all around the nation.