Find Ken DeLand Website handout
The family of 22-year-old study abroad student Ken DeLand. Jr., who has been missing in France since Dec. 3, are desperate for information about their son.
DeLand, who is in his last year at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York, is part of a study abroad program run by the University of Grenoble Alpes under the American Institute for Foreign Study group.
His mother Carol Laws said an administrator with the study abroad program contacted her in late November. “She said that she had to file a missing persons report because they had not seen him in 24 hours,” Laws said in a video posted on the “Find Ken DeLand” website launched over the weekend. “I’m not there. I’m here … thousands of miles away. This can’t be possible. How did he go missing? What happened?”