Bonnie Lohman was 3 years old when she was abducted by her mother and stepfather, taken from her father’s care. Her case wasn’t the

A few years later, when Bonnie was 7, she was in a grocery store with her stepfather and spotted her own face on the side of a milk carton. She recognized the picture, but didn’t understand what it meant. She asked to keep the cut-out image and was allowed to—on the condition that she kept it secret.

Her neighbors later learned who she was after the carton was accidentally left behind in a bag of toys at their house. They contacted authorities, and Bonnie was reunited with her father. Bonnie is one of the few success stories of the milk carton programme.