Police in Columbus, Ohio, are still searching for four children who went missing from a foster home on Wednesday evening.

According to WFAA, 12-year-old Jamarion Ball, 10-year-old Justice Baldwin, four-year-old Journey Ball, and two-year-old Royalty Ball left the house around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. They were reported missing the next morning.

Jamarion, who has brown hair and brown eyes, is 5-foot-1 and weighs 96 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, gray hoodie, jeans, carrying a backpack.

Justice has black hair and brown eyes, is 5-foot-6 and weighs 80 pounds. She was last seen wearing a multi-color hat and light gray coat, carrying a backpack.

Journey has black hair and brown eyes, stands at 3-foot-6 and weighs 42 pounds. The toddler was last seen wearing a pink coat.

Royalty has black hair and brown eyes, stands at three-feet tall and weighs 35 pounds. She was last seen wearing a leopard print coat.

The Franklin County Children Services initially assumed that the children, who are all Black, may have been abducted. But police later ruled out the possibility. According to The Columbus Dispatch, detective Tim Hedrick said investigators "don't have any indication they were abducted right now," and the situation is being treated as a "high-risk missing persons case."

According to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, 87,438 people were reported missing in 2019. Children under the age of 18 accounted for 35% of the missing people, totaling 30,618. The FBI's data also shows that Black children account for more than a third of missing cases, CNN reported. 

"I think there's a false belief that white children make up the biggest number of missing children when in fact (proportionally) it's just the opposite," said Robert Lowery, vice president of the missing child division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 

Natalie Wilson, the co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation, said Black families are hesitant to contact law enforcement when their child is missing because "there's a sense of distrust between law enforcement and the minority community." 

A 2019 study also showed that Black children accounted for about 35% of missing children cases, but only amounted to only 7% of media references.

However, Wilson said media is needed to "put law enforcement on alert."

"They add additional resources to the case," she told CNN. "If no one knows about it, then no one's doing anything to find them or to help them get the assistance they need."

Anyone with information about the missing children in Columbus is asked to call police at (614) 645-4545. 

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