All day Tuesday, we’ve been telling you about a Milwaukee girl who has been missing for ten days .
We heard from our viewers, wondering why police did not push out an Amber Alert.
It turns out, this case was all over a custody dispute. A spokesperson for Milwaukee police says you usually do not hear about those, because the child is not in imminent danger.
We looked into the big differences in cases which can trigger Amber Alerts.
567. That’s how many children under 17 years old are currently missing right now in Wisconsin.
According to the Department of Justice, the latest is 10-year-old Ah’leal Spence, last seen two Saturdays ago, near North 36th and Lisbon.
Neighbors, like Gloria Garrett, are worried.
“I’m wondering what’s going on with the kids coming up missing; what are we going to do about it? They should have put it out day one she went missing,” Garrett said.
But we learned Tuesday why that did not happen when the child was first reported missing February 3rd.
Milwaukee police tell us this case is the result of a custody dispute. And those are cases the public normally never hears about, because the child is not in danger. A spokesperson says an alert was sent out by mistake.