CA CA - Daniel Yuen, 16, Running Springs, 8 Feb 2004

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New clues emerge 15 years after teen's disappearance: 'We just want to know he's safe,' family says

Daniel Yuen was 16 years old when he disappeared in 2004.

abcnews.go.com

ByEmily Shapiro
January 19, 2019

 

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Includes video.

New clues emerge 15 years after teen's disappearance: 'We just want to know he's safe,' family says

Daniel Yuen was 16 years old when he disappeared in 2004.

abcnews.go.com

ByEmily Shapiro
January 19, 2019
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Years went by without a lead -- until December 2018.
Raymond said he received a voicemail last month from an unknown individual.
"Daniel Yuen is fine, Daniel Yuen is still in the same area where you originally searched," the message said. "He doesn't want to be found, he doesn't want you or his parents looking for him."
(...) A park office employee reported seeing a man who looked similar to Daniel Yuen. The man had been in the park that same day with a white woman and a baby girl, the employee told Raymond.

If it is him, why would he not want to reunite with his family? Does he blame them for sending him to the school?

 

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''Suspect No. 1: Inside Daniel Yuen's Missing Person Case​

The 2004 disappearance of a New Jersey teenager sent to a notorious San Bernardino County group home for depression treatment—and his alleged reappearance in San Diego—made national headlines. But was it all a web of lies?''

• DAVID SAFRAN MAR 1, 2023
• https://lamag.com/news/daniel-yuen-cedu-missing-person-san-bernardino
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• ''Daniel Yuen arrived at CEDU, a sprawling but thinly populated private, for-profit residential treatment facility, on January 26, 2004. Daniel’s parents, Lisa and Wayne Yuen, had sent their 16-year-old son across the country from their New Jersey home believing he would undergo basic treatment for adolescent depression. It was Daniel's first journey to the San Bernardino Mountains. 13 days later, he disappeared.
  
  Emerging in the mid-1960s deeply connected to the self-help cult, Synanon, CEDU marketed itself by Daniel Yuen's era as “the nation’s first emotional growth boarding school.” However, this “high school” was, in fact, licensed as a group home. And throughout four unsinkable decades, CEDU remained a law-flouting, scandal-plagued institution accused of rampant child abuse, misconduct, false marketing, and cultic behavior. The company that eventually bought CEDU Educational Services, Inc. declared bankruptcy in 2005.''