How soon can a child report the loss?

You can report the child missing for 24 hours. Generally speaking, the time limit for reporting missing persons is 24 hours. If it is/kloc-children under 0/0 or children under 2 years old, there is no time limit. Under any of the following circumstances, the public security organ that meets the jurisdiction conditions after examination shall immediately file a case and carry out investigation quickly:

1. Having received a report, complaint or report of abducting and selling women and children;

2. Received reports of missing children or missing women aged over 14 and under 18;

3. It is reported that a woman aged 18 is missing and may be trafficked;

Criminal law of the people's Republic of China

Article 240

Crime of abducting and selling women and children Whoever abducts and sells women and children shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; Under any of the following circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to death and his property shall be confiscated:

(1) The ringleader of a group that abducts and sells women and children;

(2) Abducting and selling more than three women and children;

(3) raping a trafficked woman;

(4) luring or forcing trafficked women to engage in prostitution or selling trafficked women to others for forced prostitution;

(5) Kidnapping women and children by violence, coercion or anesthesia for the purpose of selling;

(6) Stealing infants and young children for the purpose of selling;

(7) Causing serious injury, death or other serious consequences to abducted women, children or their relatives;

(8) Trafficking women and children abroad.

Abduction and trafficking in women and children refers to one of the acts of abducting, kidnapping, buying, selling, picking up and transferring women and children for the purpose of selling.