Unsolved / Sarah Benford

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It is estimated that around 170,000 people are reported missing each year in the United Kingdom. Of that number, approximately 98,000 are adults, and more than 70,000 are children. The average age for a first-time runaway is 13, and one out of four missing children will have been the victims of physical or sexual abuse. Children living in residential care are three times more likely to run away than peers living with their families. Those in care are also more vulnerable to abduction and grooming. While most of these missing people do eventually return home, a small percentage turn up dead, and an even smaller number still remain missing…

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0:00.0	This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence.
0:20.4	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:24.9	Listener caution is advised.
0:31.7	They walk among us as part of the A-cast creator network.
0:37.0	Music us is part of the ACAST Creator Network.
0:52.7	It is estimated that around 170,000 people are reported missing each year in the United Kingdom.
0:57.5	Of that number, approximately 98,000 are adults,
1:06.1	and more than 70,000 are children. The average age for a first time runaway is 13, and one out of four missing children will have been the victims of physical or sexual abuse. Children living in residential
1:13.9	care are three times more likely to run away than peers living with their families. Those in care
1:21.0	are also more vulnerable to abduction and grooming. While most of these missing people do eventually return home, a small percentage turn up debt,
1:33.1	and an even smaller number still remain missing.
1:39.8	She was a vulnerable child.
1:41.6	She was somebody who we now know was exploited by people around her.
1:45.0	And I think when we're all of Sarah's sort of age, 14 years to 16 years, we all think we know best, we all think we're perhaps invincible.
1:53.0	I don't know what anybody's motive could be to murder anybody, certainly not Charles.
1:57.0	People out there will know how she died, will know who was involved in her death and where
2:02.9	she is buried. Whether something's gone wrong, whether she's got caught up in the middle of something.
2:08.5	Either way, somebody must know because we haven't found her body, so somebody's involved.
2:17.4	Welcome to Season 7, Episode 5 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
2:42.1	Wellford House is a residential home for children unable to live with their loved ones due to behavioural and or emotional difficulties.
2:46.4	It's located in Northampton in the East Midlands and is part of the Northamptonshire Children's Trust.
2:54.9	One resident of Wellford House was 14-year-old Sarah Benford.
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