Missing 13 Year Old Utah Girl Brooklyn Gittins Found Unharmed
13 year old Brooklyn Gittins has been found safe after having been missing since Tuesday evening, January 8, 2013, wearing only pajamas and a shirt. She disappeared without wearing shoes or a coat in chilly weather, yet has been found unharmed. However, questions are numerous and still need to be answered as to where she was and what she was doing while 1,000 volunteers searched for her for two day. Police now know that Brooklyn Gittins crawled out of her bedroom window and left on her own accord Tuesday night. However, authorities still don’t know whether to label the case a runaway or an abduction.
A 13-year-old girl who disappeared this week without shoes or a coat in chilly weather has been found unharmed, but questions abound about where she was and what she was doing while 1,000 volunteers searched for her for two days.
Brooklyn Gittins called her grandmother late Thursday night from a Wal-Mart store in South Jordan, Unified Police spokesman Lt. Justin Hoyal said. The woman then contacted police and officers located the child. She was uninjured and wearing the same clothes — and still without shoes or a coat.
Authorities still don’t know whether to label the case a runaway or an abduction.
They know that Brooklyn Gittins crawled out of her bedroom window and left on her own accord Tuesday night. She was picked up in a car by a person or persons who then harbored her for two days, Hoyal said.
Lt. Justin Hoyal of Salt Lake Unified Police told ABCNews.com that she is safe at home now, but anyone who was complicit in this disappearance will be held accountable and brought to justice.
“We believe that she did leave her house on Tuesday evening, and somebody picked her up and harbored her for the last two and a half days. We’re going to investigate,” he said. “She’s 13 years old, and for someone to hold her is wrong. We’ll do everything to find the person and bring [that person] to justice.”
Posted January 12, 2013 by Scared Monkeys Child Welfare, Crime, endangering the welfare of a child, Found Safe, Kidnapping/Abduction, Law Enforcement, Missing Persons, Run away | one comment |
7 Year Old Cole Evans Missing Since 1/5/13 Near Seligman, AZ (UPDATE: Missing 7 year old found safe)
7 year old Cole Evans has been missing since Saturday, January 5, 2013 when he disappeared from his grandmother’s home near My Way Road and Lazy Days Road in Seligman, Arizona. The boy’s grandmother stated that she last saw Cole around 10 a.m. Saturday and assumed he wandered off the property without her knowledge. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies and search and rescue personnel are looking for Cole Evans. The 7 year old boy who lives in Phoenix with his parents and was visiting his grandmother’s vacation home has a form of Autism. There is no evidence of foul play and the family is fully cooperating.
Courtesy YCSO – Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is still looking for a young boy who went missing in the town of Seligman on Saturday.
YCSO said they have not been able to locate 7-year-old Cole Evans after he disappeared from his grandmother’s home near My Way Road and Lazy Days Road on Saturday morning.
Authorities will continue to search for Evans with more than 100 ground search team members and ongoing air support.
Cole Evan Description:
Evans is 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighs approximately 70 pounds. He has brown hair, blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a black hooded coat with a Batman emblem. He may also be wearing black snow boots.
If you have any information, you’re asked to call 911 or the sheriff’s office at 928-771-3260 immediately
UPDATE I: Reported at KPHO, Detectives are looking for a man seen carrying a bow and standing next to a blue 1/2 ton pick-up truck with a boy who had dark hair and a black jacket tied around his waist.
UPDATE II: Missing 7 year old Cole Evans found Safe on Sunday about a mile and a half from his grandmother’s home.
Posted January 6, 2013 by Scared Monkeys Autism, Cole Evans, Found Safe, Missing Persons | no comments |
Missing Georgia Brothers Ben & Henry Cleary Founds Safe in Texas, Father Daniel Cleary Arrested
Ben and Henry Cleary, the two Georgia brothers who have been missing since Wednesday, December 26 have been found safe in Austin, TX. An Amber Alert was issued on Thursday for the missing 9 and 7 year old brothers after they had been abducted by their father, Daniel Cleary. Cleary was supposed to return the boys to their mother on Wednesday; however, never did. 46 year old Daniel Cleary was taken into custody Saturday evening by police. He faces a felony charge of interstate interference with custody.
Police said two young boys from Georgia who were reported missing this week were found safe in Texas on Saturday and their father is in custody and facing charges.
Brothers Ben and Henry Cleary — ages 9 and 7 — were visiting with their father, Daniel Cleary, of Roswell, and were supposed to return home Wednesday. An Amber Alert was issued Thursday.
Roswell Police Lt. James H. McGee said that the 46-year-old Daniel Cleary was taken into custody Saturday evening in Austin, Texas.
“We have recovered the kids,” McGee told The Associated Press. “They were with him and they were OK.”
Posted December 30, 2012 by Scared Monkeys Amber Alert, Crime, Found Safe, Kidnapping/Abduction, Missing Persons | no comments |
11 Year Old Luis Gonzalez Missing Since 12/8/12 in East Haven, CT (UPDATE: Found Safe in Hamden, CT)
Police are looking for missing 11 year old Luis Gonzalez who was last seen today at about 2:45 p.m. near Main Street and Boston Avenue in East Haven. The 11-year-old Hispanic boy is said to have special medical needs.
Police say Gonzalez is a special needs child on medication. He’s approximately 5 feet tall and 90 pounds, and he wears glasses.
He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a dark colored shirt, and white sneakers with red writing.
If anyone has seen the boy is asked to call East Haven Police at 203-468-3820 or call 911.
UPDATE I: 11 Year Old Luis Gonzalez has been found safe in Hamden, CT. Saturday evening.
TBI Issues Endangered Child Alert for 5 year old Clayton Summers, 6 year old Cadence Summers & 2 year old Olivia Summers Missing in Lafayette, TN (Update: Found Safe)
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an Endangered Child Alert for three missing children, 5 year old Clayton Summers, 6 year old Cadence Summers and 2 year old Olivia Summers from Middle Tennessee. Authorities say they were taken by their non-custodial mother, 28-year-old Lashawna Summers.
Police in Lafayette, TN, which is northeast of Nashville, say 5-year-old Clayton Summers, 6-year-old Cadence Summers and 2-year-old Olivia Summers were taken by their non-custodial mother, 28-year-old Lashawna Summers.
The TBI says Summers was supposed to surrender her children to their father yesterday but never showed up. She is believed to be traveling in a Maroon 1997 Ford Expedition with Tennessee tags 436-DJS.
Anyone with information is urged to call the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND.
UPDATE I: Endangered Child Alert Canceled … Children found safe. The three children have been found safe and have been returned to the custody of their father.