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.
MENIFEE, Calif. - Remains have been found at the Menifee home of an 11-year-old boy with autism who went missing Saturday, ABC affiliate KABC reported.
Investigators are working to determine if the remains are human.
Terry Dewayne Smith Jr. disappeared from his family's home in the 3300 block of Helen Lane Saturday between 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The 11-year-old boy was initially said to have been last seen in his brother's room Saturday night. On Wednesday, however, officials said his 16-year-old brother saw him following him to a nearby market. Once his brother realized Terry was following him, he told him to go home. Terry then disappeared.
Crime tape blocked the street that led to the boy's family home as the investigation continued Wednesday.
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'
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