Did this bring a small tear to any of you heartless fucks on this board
I know the dads will know where Im comming from … My son is this boys age
The things this lil boy went through … Its real sad
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/05/3yearold-boy-found-alive-in-missouri-forest.html
3-year-old boy found alive in Missouri forest
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After two frustrating days, searchers in Missouri have found alive a 3-year-old boy who wandered away from his home in the rugged hills of the Mark Twain National Forest, the Associated Press reports.
Joshua Childers, who slipped away from his family’s mobile home near Arcadia in rural southeast Missouri Monday morning, was in remarkably good condition, the AP says.
Donnie Halpin, a search volunteer, found the boy lying on the ground after he spotted stray dogs sniffing at something Wednesday afternoon. Halpin told the AP that he wasn’t sure at first if he was alive and shouted “Hey, Bud.” But Joshua “jumped right up and grinned and me,” he said.
“I said, ‘You ready to go home?’ He said, ‘Yeah,’” Halpin told AP.
Halpin said Joshua wasn’t crying or complaining. “He hung on to me pretty tight,” Halpin said. “Outside of a few scratches, he was in really good shape.”
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ST. LOUIS - A 3-year-old boy was found in rugged Missouri woods Wednesday afternoon, 50 hours since he wandered away from his rural home three miles away, authorities said.
A search volunteer found Joshua Childers in a hollow, or dry creek bottom, in rugged national forest land, Madison County Sheriff David Lewis said.
He was in fair condition based on an initial assessment at a hospital, Iron County Hospital CEO Ed Gast said.
Spotty rains hit the area while the boy was gone, and temperatures dipped as low as 48 on Tuesday morning but rose into the 70s Wednesday. More information wasn’t immediately available on his condition or the circumstances of how he was found.
“The parents would like to thank everyone who has assisted in the search and treatment of Joshua and they ask that their privacy be protected at this time,” Gast said.
Joshua slipped out of his house before noon Monday, wearing a T-shirt, sneakers and a pull-up diaper. His parents searched about 45 minutes before calling police, setting off a massive search by authorities and volunteers.
“Today we brought in professional rescue people,” he said. “We tried to cover everything again and widened the scope.”
They searched by land grids and water, with dogs, divers and sonar equipment. Rain and cool temperatures worsened search conditions.
Lewis described the Mark Twain National Forest as “really rough country,” consisting of steep ravines, creeks and rugged rocks.
“I’m so happy, you can’t believe it,” Lewis said. “I’m going to go home and take a shower and go to bed.”Rick Stockham, a neighbor of Joshua’s grandmother, told KSDK-TV in St. Louis that the woman had been "begging God to see that little boy alive one more time.
“She got her wish,” he said.
Joshua’s father works an overnight shift and was home sleeping late Monday morning. His mother was watching the child but was briefly distracted. That’s when the boy wandered away from the home near the small town of Arcadia, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis.