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Elizabeth Smart Offers Message of Hope in Case of Missing Evansdale Cousins, Now Gone 3 Months
Elizabeth Smart was abducted when she was 14 and was reunited with her family nine months later.
Elizabeth Smart delivered a message of hope in Des Moines Thursday.
Smart, who was abducted when she was 14, was reunited with her family after nine months. Now 24, she spoke at a benefit for Blank Children’s Hospital’s Regional Child Protection Center.
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“Children go missing, and it may seem impossible that they’ll ever come back,” Smart said. “But there are always exceptions to the rule.”
Her message came after a moment of silence for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, two Evansdale girls who went missing July 13. Saturday will mark three months since they disappeared.
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Anyone with any information on the missing cousins should email OurMissingIowaGirls@dps.state.ia.us. or call the public tip-line at (319) 232-6682. Authorities have released a list of factors the public should consider that could help find the girls.
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