Listed below are the names and ages of more than 200 children and teenagers, all under the age of 18, on the Boston Police Department's "Active List" of missing persons as of December 1, 2005. Since then, some of them may have returned safely; others have surely been added. Most were reported missing, not surprisingly, from the police districts with the highest concentration of children: B2 (Roxbury), C11 (Dorchester), and B3 (Matappan/Dorchester). Other districts, in order of the number of missing children, are E18 (Hyde Park), E13 (Jamaica Plain), D14 (Allston/Brighton), A1 (Downtown/Charlestown), E5 (Roslindale/West Roxbury), A7 (East Boston), D4 (Back Bay/South End), and C6 (South Boston).

The Boston Police Department does not post these names on its web site or release the list to the public, but provided it to the Phoenix in response to our written request.