Jacob Subang, an 18-year-old who suffers from autism and epilepsy, disappeared around 7:30 a.m.
Police say he was found shortly before 1:30 p.m. at an apartment complex on Westwood Road, in good health."
'via Blog this'
News broke Tuesday that human remains from the East River belong to an autistic 14-year-old who had been missing since October — and who vanished when his teachers should have been watching him.
Avonte Oquendo slipped away from school after lunch on Oct. 4, even though he had a reputation for wandering away during transitions and anindividualized education plan that noted this tendency, his family's lawyer David Perecmanpreviously told Business Insider.
There is still a lot we don't know about what happened to Oquendo after he was lost and how he ultimately died. There are no obvious signs of foul play, the New York Post reported. We do know the teen, who could not speak, was afraid of the water, and that his parents don't know how he ended up in the river, Perecman told NBC News. The Post also noted his remains were found with Fruit of the Loom underwear that was too large for Oquendo, leading his family's lawyer to speculate that somebody may have had the boy for a few days.
DEARBORN, Mich. (WXYZ) - Dearborn Police are asking for the public's help to find a teenager who has been missing since Saturday night.
Officers say 16-year-old Charles Foster was last seen by his parents as he was walking out of the family's home in the 4600 block of Schlaff. The incident happened at around 10:45 pm.
Police say Charles' parents were unable to catch him as he ran northbound.
Charles is 5'2" tall and weighs about 110 pounds. He appears much younger than his actual age. Charles has short hair and wears small frame glasses.
He suffers from Autism, bi-polar disorder and mood swings. However, his family does not believe that he is a danger to himself or others.
Charles was last seen wearing a beige collared short sleeve shirt with horizontal stripes, dark shoes and his glasses.
Police say he has run away in the past and will frequent restaurants, gas stations or will beg for food.
Anyone who has come into contact with Charles is asked to call 911 or Dearborn Police at (313) 943-2241.
The 3-year-old girl wandered away from her grandmother’s home in Wareham, Mass., in mid-April. A frantic search began almost immediately, and within an hour little Alyvia Navarro was found unresponsive in a nearby pond. She was pronounced dead the next day.
A month later, across the continent, a larger search unfolded over three days as hundreds of emergency service personnel and volunteers fanned out around Clearlake, Calif., looking for 9-year-old Mikaela Lynch after she vanished from her backyard. The outcome grimly echoed the Wareham search: A dive team found Mikaela’s body in a muddy creek.
The two girls were the first of at least 14 children with autism known to have died this year after slipping away from their caregivers. All but one of them drowned, evidence of a fascination that many autistic children have with water. The body of the latest victim, 11-year-old Anthony Kuznia, was found Thursday in the Red River after a 24-hour search near his home in East Grand Forks, Minn.
The tragic phenomenon goes by various names -- wandering, elopement, bolting -- and about half of autistic children are prone to it, according to research published last year in the journal Pediatrics.
That would be a huge number. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last year that 1 in 88 children are affected by autism, and a federal survey this year pegged the prevalence rate at one of every 50 schoolchildren -- more than 1 million children in all.
Wandering has led to the deaths of more than 60 children in the past four years, and the fear of it can make daily life a harrowing, never-let-your-guard-down challenge for parents.
Police say he was found inside a locked car behind a short fence on private property just two apartment buildings down from where he lived.
D.C. police and dozens of recruits went going door-to-door in the Trinidad neighborhood where Kingsbury was last seen around 9 a.m. Sunday.
Michael's mother, Katrina Kingsbury, thanked the community Monday night for coming out to help with the search.
Many who helped look for the little boy just can't imagine how they missed him.
"We were there four times," said Gaston McVea, who was one of the dozens of people who helped search for Kingsbury after he disappeared. "That was our central location and somehow we missed this."'via Blog this'
Mikey Gray, a 2-year-old with autism, walked out the door of his home dressed in lime-green pajamas Aug. 7 and disappeared into the woods of Spafford in the hills above Skaneateles Lake.
His mother, Kimberly Gray, remembers well the four hours of pain and terror she went through that day as 150 police officers and volunteers searched for the boy. It ended when a state trooper heard the boy’s cries and found him in the woods a quarter mile from the family’s Bacon Hill Road house.
Kimberly Gray was grabbing a shower around noon that day. Her husband, off-duty state Trooper John Gray, was helping their 13-year-old son set up his stereo. Then the 13-year-old said two words that set the family into pandemonium — “Where’s Mikey?”
Kimberly said it took two seconds for Mikey to disappear.
More @ http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/autistic_child_who_was_the_sub.html
Police are searching for a 5-year-old non-verbal boy who went missing near Prescott, Wis., shortly before noon Tuesday, July 3.More @ http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_20999935/5-year-old-boy-missing-near-prescott-wis
Scott Meyer, who goes by the name "Scotty," was reported missing from N4842 1165th St. in the town of Oak Grove. Scott has autism. He's described as 3-feet-tall with blond hair and a buzz cut and was last seen wearing green shorts and no shirt, according to the Pierce County sheriff's office.
Anyone who has information should call the sheriff's office at 715-273-5051.
The public can aid in the search by reporting to N4842 1165th St. in the town of Oak Grove, the sheriff's office said.
Several agencies from Minnesota and Wisconsin are assisting in the search.
Andy Rathbun can be reached at 651-228-2121. Follow him at twitter.com/andyrathbun.
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office dive team has recovered the body of a 5-year-old autistic girl who drowned in a pond Monday, authorities said.
Several witnesses reported seeing the girl in a retention pond off the 4400 block of Ninth Avenue East, in the Braden River Lakes subdivision, about 1:30 p.m.
About a dozen divers and other firefighters searched the pond, which is about 12 to 20 feet deep in its deepest parts.
The child did not know how to swim.
Police say she was at home with her father and grandmother when somehow she managed to wander out a sliding glass door.
The house backs up to a retention pond.
"Everyone is devastated in this case," said Tobin. "The parents, I'm told, did everything they could. The one thing they didn't think of that their child would go through the window."
Redding police found a missing autistic boy just after midnight this morning, nearly four hours after he was last seen near his residence in the area of Park Marina Drive and Athens Avenue.
Keanu Nell-Morgan, 11, was located by citizens as he walked east along the shoulder of Highway 44 near the Sacramento River, Cpl. Mike Woods said in a press release.
PHILADELPHIA - It sounds too extraordinary to be true, but it's exactly what happened: A child went to the bathroom, but never returned.
It was an adventurous morning for the 8-year-old, but not for his dad.
Nadir Monroe, 8, asked his teacher at Alexander Wilson Elementary School in Southwest Philadelphia to go to the bathroom. But instead the boy walked out of the school, boarded a trolley and headed for busy Center City. No one in the school saw him.
More @ http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/autistic-child-dissappears-from-phila.-school
After hours of searching, dive teams found 7-year-old Hannah Ross dead in Soil Erosion Lake on Fort Gordon.By land, air, and water, deputies and soldiers spent hours searching for Ross, who was affected by autism. Her family says she got upset Saturday evening and then disappeared.
NEW YORK (PIX11)—
According to reports, Ross Harrison ran out of his family's home on West 182nd Street as the school bus waited for him to board. Instead of getting on the bus, his mother said the teen ran down the block.
The boy reportedly was complaining about being picked on and fled in an attempt to avoid further bullying.
More @ http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-search-for-brooklyn-boy-with-autism,0,4309826.story
FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- The Oertel family lives in a red-brick, two-story house tucked in a tree-lined, suburban Maryland cul-de-sac. There's no fence, just a small alarm company sign on the lawn that gives no clue to the system's real purpose.
The array of bolts high on the front door, the upgraded locks on the patio and garage doors and the "burglar" alarm are meant less to keep out intruders than to prevent 15-year-old Luke Oertel from silently leaving.
Luke has a moderate form of autism, a developmental disorder that affects a child's social interactions, language and behavior. He is among those with autism who wander without a typical child's sense of fear or danger.
In June, Luke outsmarted a system of combination locks and wandered five miles away, through the early-morning rush hour, taking a pedestrian underpass beneath a heavily traveled road off the Capital Beltway.
Last year, "autism wandering" became an official diagnosis in the United States with its own medical code. Some of those afflicted enter strangers' houses. Others end up in traffic or on train tracks. Many find their way to nearby pools or ponds.
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