Statistically, every 40 seconds a child goes missing somewhere in the United States. The most at risk group for child abductions and missing children are girls aged 14-17. Unfortunately, Silvia Chilel seems to have become part of that statistic.

Detroit Police are reaching out to the community in hopes of finding the 16 year old Chilel.

According to Detroit authorities, Chilel was last seen on the morning of June 7, 2019. Her last known location was in the 5600 block of 52nd Street on Detroit’s Southwest side. Chilel is new to the Detroit area, having recently moved there with her family.

It’s important to note that Chilel does not speak any English. The native Spanish speaker is said to be between 115-120 pounds with long, black hair. She also has a medium brown complexion. It’s uncertain what she was last wearing and no additional description has been given at this time.

According to authorities, Chiel has never gone missing in the past. Additionally, the teen is said to be in positive mental and physical health. These factors point to Chilel’s disappearance as not being self-imposed. Instead, it may mean that it was caused by nefarious means.

Sex trafficking is a very real danger to missing children and teens.

According to the Michigan State Police, every year there are approximately 58,200 child victims of abduction by a non-family members. Teenagers are the most common victims of this kind of abduction. Also, nearly half of children kidnapped by non-family members are sexually assaulted or exploited.

In 2018, US Marshal Services in Michigan located 123 missing kids as part of a one-day raid. Called Operation MISafeKid, the children were interviewed in connection to sex trafficking rings upon their discovery. The 123 kids were less than half of the 301 children reported missing in the Detroit area leading up to the investigation.

There’s hope that Chilel will be found safely and soon with the help of the Detroit community.

The Detroit Police Department are looking for any information they can find about Chilel. If you have details that can help find this teen, contact Detroit Police at 313-596-5385. In addition, Crime Stoppers of Detroit can be reached at 1-800 Speak Up. With your help, we can bring Silvia home.

Earlier this month, the National Sound Library of Mexico announced they had discovered the only known recording of the artist’s voice. Media outlets and Kahlo fans around the world were ecstatic about the audio thought to have captured Kahlo reading a portion of her essay about her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera.

Now, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s relatives and former students have come forward to dismiss claims that the discovered recording could be her voice.

Last week fans of the artist were enthused to find out last week that researchers in Mexico had discovered an audio recording of Frida Kahlo, but now people that knew her well are saying that voice in the recording is not her at all.

“The thing is, I don’t recognize the voice,” Guillermo Monroy Becerril, a former student of Kahlo’s, told the Spanish news agency Efe. “The first time I met her, I noticed she was a woman with a very sweet, cheerful voice … Frida’s real voice was very lively, charming, and cheery. It wasn’t serious or smooth or delicate … it was crystal clear.”

Kahlo’s descendants have also questioned the origins of the recording.

In a statement, member’s of the artist’s family said: “As far as Kahlo family knows, there are no records of Frida’s voice.”

Another person is claiming the voice in that recording is her and not Kahlo.

Mexican actress Amparo Garrido, who did the voice of Snow White in the 1960s for a dub recording in Spanish, said, according to The Guardian, “I feel it’s me and have for a while. I recorded various things for El Bachiller … I’m almost absolutely sure that I recorded this one.” Her daughter agrees, “I immediately heard the voice of my mother.”

The library researches who found the audio recording in the first place said they are still investigating the file to find out the origin.

Why did we get our hopes up for nothing?!

The New York Times reports that the National Sound Library will meet with Garrido to see if her voice matches that of the Kahlo recording and will test out other voices from actresses in Mexico from that era as a process of elimination.