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Epoch Times
01-05-2025
- Epoch Times
Sheriff's Deputies Rescue Missing Autistic Child From California Freeway
The San Diego County Sheriff's Office released a video April 28 of the harrowing rescue of an 11-year-old autistic boy as he raced down a freeway. No one was hurt in the March 1 incident, the department reported Monday. According to the report the sheriff's department received a call from the boy's family just before 4:30 p.m. He had gone missing from a nearby supermarket on the 9600 block of Mission Gorge Road. The child, who is non-verbal, was with his family when he ran out of the store, according to the sheriff's department. Within minutes, deputies from the Santee Sheriff's Station started looking for the child. A sheriff's helicopter also began making announcements to the public in the area about the boy, the department reported. At about 5:15 p.m., sheriff's dispatcher Shiloh Corbet was driving home from work when she spotted someone matching the child's description running along Mast Boulevard near the State Route 52 on-ramp. Related Stories 4/26/2025 4/14/2025 Corbet called the sheriff's communications center to report the sighting. While on the phone, she noticed the child running up the freeway on-ramp, according to the department. By the time Corbet got to the freeway's shoulder, the boy had crossed the westbound lanes of the freeway and was standing in the center divider, according to the report. Corbet called to the boy and told him to stay where he was for his own safety, the department said. When deputies Cody Green and Michael Moser arrived at the scene, they parked on the street below the overpass and could see the child at the top of the embankment. A The boy then jumped a guardrail into the left-hand shoulder of the freeway lanes as cars sped by him. The boy tried to run away from the deputies who followed him on the side of the road. One deputy caught up to the boy and led him off the freeway to safety. A dispatcher was heard in the video asking the California Highway Patrol to shut down the freeway, but that request was canceled when the deputies reached him. 'He was soon reunited with his family,' the sheriff's department said in a press release. 'No one was hurt.' The deputies and communications dispatcher were recognized by the sheriff's department Monday as part of Autism Acceptance Month.
Daily Mail
29-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Autistic boy, 11, vanished from California supermarket... where cops found him made parents' blood run cold
A non-verbal autistic 11-year-old boy who vanished from a grocery store was eventually found wandering onto a California freeway by police. On March 9, the San Diego County Sheriff's Office received a report about the child fleeing the store while shopping with his family, the department said. Deputies from the Santee Sheriff's Station immediately started searching for the child along with an ASTREA helicopter that began making announcements to advise the public of his disappearance. Around 5.15pm, off-duty Sheriff's Dispatcher Shiloh Corbet spotted the unidentified boy while on her way home from work and immediately called the department's communications center to report the sighting. While she was on the phone, Corbet noticed the child starting to run toward the freeway on-ramp, leading her to stop her car and follow him. The child had made his way to the shoulder of the busy road when she reached him he crossed the westbound lanes and was standing in the center divider, according to the sheriff's office. Corbet then called out the child's name that she was told by the communications center and told him to stay where he was for his own safety. Deputies Cody Green and Michael Moser soon arrived at the scene and tried to approach the boy at the top of the steep embankment, but he moved away from them. Dramatic video showed the boy, dressed in red shorts and black t-shirt crouching down along the ramp before turning around and running up and onto the freeway. He then hopped over an embankment and ran before the officers approached him and brought him to safety. The missing child was then reunited with his worried family. No one was injured. 'The San Diego County Sheriff's Office wants to thank Sheriff's Dispatcher Shiloh Corbet, Deputies Cody Green and Michael Moser, as well as the Santee Sheriff's Station, Lakeside Sheriff's Substation, Sheriff's ASTREA, Sheriff's Communications Center and several Good Samaritans, for working together to find the missing child and getting him to safety,' the department said. The agency also noted that April is Autism Awareness Month, while mentioning their free Take Home Program which helps if 'they get lost or wander away.' 'The physical and medical information you provide and other pertinent details about their care will help tailor our search and rescue response to help bring the patient home safely,' it added. The boy's rescue comes just a little more than a week after another non-verbal autistic boy from Texas went missing in New York City before being found trekking four miles all by himself to get a glimpse of the Empire State Building. Seven-year-old Ruwaid Karim walked out of Dera Restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens around 11.45am April 18 while he was having breakfast with his mother Farjana Akond. She quickly reported him missing as the NYPD posted several images of him to social media, including him in the restaurant just before he walked out. Police were later notified after a Good Samaritan noticed the little boy walking along E. 61st Street in Manhattan - 4.2 miles from where he started. Just as he was walking out into traffic, the woman darted after him and brought him to safety before calling 911. She said Karim, who has an obsession with NYC landmarks, then ran into 57th Street and got honked at by several cars coming in different directions before she grabbed him. 'There were two different cars going each way that stopped and they were honking their horns, and he just kept going, and I was trying to get him but I didn't want to get hit either, so he was a little more of a hero than I was running into the middle of the street,' she explained. Once officers arrived at the scene, they quickly identified him as the missing boy and reunited him with his mother and sister.
