Here's how "Sofía Alert" works, the new system to find lost children | Chronic

On Thursday, the Ministry of National Security introduced "Alerta Sofía", the new juvenile search system, which allows the dissemination of information necessary for the identification of the lost child. It will be used in case of extreme urgency and imminent risk.

"Alerta Sofía" consists of the immediate broadcast of the image of a missing boy through cell phones, media, mail and Facebook. The system was created in the United States in 1996 under the name "Amber Alert", following the disappearance of Amber Hagerman (Kidnapped and murdered in Texas), and aims to inform a specific community in the early hours of research, considered vital.

"It means that when there is a missing or endangered boy in a community, they meet Alerta Sofía and find out what is going on."he explained Emily Vacher, Director of security and trust of Facebook during the presentation of the program.

Vacher explained that when a child under 18 is missing and in danger, a photo of the boy will appear on the wall of Facebook users. "But it will not be for everyone, only for those who are in the research area"he said.

The Minister Patricia Bullrich when he announced the program, he said: "It is important to note that it is activated only in urgent cases and in imminent danger." "This does not mean that we will not put, as we do, all the resources of the other searches ", he added.

The case of Sofía Herrera at Tierra del Fuego

The name "Sofia" refers to Sofía Herrera, the girl who disappeared more than ten years ago at Tierra del Fuego, at the age of 3 years. The case moved the country and all possible hypotheses were examined: she would have been killed and buried, stolen, she would have fallen into a stream and she would have been abducted to collect her organs. Ten years later, Sofia's research is continuing.

Disappeared in a campsite 58 kilometers from Rio Grande, in Tierra del Fuego. Each year, a team of experts changed her face to follow the girl's growth and continue to look for her.

The record of his disappearance includes 13,000 pages in which appear more than 100 statements and testimonies which, during these ten years, added data, some credible and others false, but none in particular makes it possible to understand what happened. After a decade, there is no more inmate and the investigation is at its starting point.

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