No one noticed these 3 girls were missing?

This week’s childhood horror story is brought to you by the city of Tucson, where police say three girls were held captive for up to two years by mommy dearest and their stepfather. Two And what, nobody noticed they were missing?

Police were called early Tuesday to a Tucson home after two sisters escaped and ran to a neighbor’s house.

The girls, ages 12 and 13, said they’d been held captive in their bedroom “for at least the last several months and possibly up to two years.”

When police went into the house, they found a third sister, 17, who’d been held in a separate bedroom. The bedrooms had been soundproofed, locked and alarmed, so that no one could get out without the captors knowing it, according to police.

The girls’ 34-year-old stepfather and 32-year-old mother are facing charges of kidnapping and child abuse. Meanwhile, the girls are facing …

Who knows what lies ahead for those poor girls.

“We are doing all we can to make sure these kids are kept safe,” said Tucson police Capt. Michael Gillooly.

Well, if we’re doing all we can to keep these and other Arizona children safe, then there are a number of questions about what happened here. For now, I’ll ask just two:

1. How could three girls go missing for up to two years and nobody notice? If they were at some point in school, did the school report it when they disappeared? Were there no family members who won- dered where the girls had gone? No friends? No one suspicious enough to pick up a phone?

2. Or did someone notice and call Child Protective Services? And if someone called CPS, is this one of the 6,100 calls that went uninvestigated?

I put in several calls to CPS on Wednesday, asking whether the agency ever received a call about these girls. All I could get was that they were working on an answer.

I’m not sure why it would take all day to work on an answer, if the answer is no.

But my God, what if the answer is yes …