Alert System Aims To Help Find Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women

A woman talks about the inaction she experienced when her daughter went missing. Now a new alert system hopes to keep that from happening again.

Henny Scott was just 14 years old when she went missing in Lame Deer, Montana on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in December of 2018.

Henny's mom, Paula Castro, said authorities didn't issue an Amber Alert after she reported her daughter missing to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in the nearby Crow agency.

"They just told me to fill out the paperwork, and they'll have somebody look into it," Castro said.