I Believe I Am A Missing Person

I was human trafficked throughout my entire childhood, primarily in Europe, as well as in some Northern African countries, having several false birth certificates provided by my traffickers. I vaguely recall always having spoken English, and coming back to the US a lot has felt familiar. Memories from "before" are sparse, memories in general are.

I finally made it out a year ago, with the help of some friends I now live with. I used the passport and name most commonly used by my traffickers and got a flight out of the country I was in at the time.

It's hard existing when you legally do not actually exist, so we have been trying to get a birth certificate issued to me, but as I do not have supporting documents, it's been more than a bumpy road.

In an effort to help me with how the current political climate is, my friends and I started scowering NGOs related to trafficking and missing children, originally trying to find an advocate.

What we found, however, was a link to a database, and a profile of a missing child that matches up eerily well.

The age roughly matches up, so does the time of disappearance. I had once sent one of my friends a child me picture, and the faces are so similar that another friend (their wife) asked why we were showing pictures of a random child when we showed the missing picture and my picture side by side.

It lines up down to the name of the father who allegedly is the kidnapper being the name of a person that had been around me growing up.

So what do I do now? I just feel numb and overwhelmed at the same time, and it's not like there is a manual for this kind of thing.