Police and FBI brokers are frantically trying to find a toddler who went lacking from his Georgia home 5 days in the past.
The 20-month-old boy, Quinton Simon, was reported lacking by his mom Wednesday morning after she final noticed him in his playpen on the Savannah residence she shares along with her dad and mom round 6 a.m.
Officers are working 18-hour days to attempt to find the boy and have searched a number of areas, together with the house, a yard pool and a close-by pond because the little boy went lacking, however have come up empty-handed to this point.
“I hope he’s nonetheless alive,” Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley stated about little Quinton at a press convention Thursday. “We don’t have any data to imagine he’s not, however statistically we all know how these circumstances could find yourself.”
Hadley added that officers have discovered no proof that implies foul play was concerned within the boy’s disappearance.
“We’re going to carry out hope that he’s nonetheless alive, that we will discover him and produce him residence secure to his dad and mom,” he stated.
The division and the FBI have deployed Ok-9 groups, drones, helicopters, officers on horseback and heat-detecting expertise within the seek for Quinton.
Quinton lived in a home together with his 22-year-old mom, his 3-year-old brother, his mom’s boyfriend and his maternal grandparents, native ABC affiliate WJCL reported.
His grandparents, Billie Jo and Thomas Howell, have authorized custody of Quinton and his older brother, in accordance with the native station.
“She hasn’t all the time carried out the best factor,” Billie Jo Howell stated of her daughter Leilani, Quinton’s mother in an interview with the station. “Typically she does actually nice, generally she doesn’t… I don’t know if I can belief her — I don’t.”
She fought again tears as she stated she simply needed her child residence.
“I simply know I’m hurting and I would like this child residence,” she stated. “He’s my child.”
Court docket information obtained by WJCL present that Billie Jo Howell tried to evict the kid’s mom and her boyfriend from her residence in early September.
“They’ve broken my property and at this level nobody resides in peace,” she stated within the court docket submitting.
Police have responded to the house twice within the final two years, in accordance with the Chatham County Police Division. The division didn’t present particulars on these calls, however stated neither had been for earlier experiences of a lacking youngster.
Police, on Wednesday, stated there was no proof Quinton was kidnapped and that his case doesn’t seem like a custody dispute.
Nonetheless, officers haven’t utterly dominated out that the boy might have been kidnapped and the FBI is aiding the search as a result of it being a possible abduction.
The Chatham County Police Division is constant to deal with Quinton’s disappearance as a lacking individuals case.
The division stated officers are re-canvassing particular areas Sunday morning as they proceed to seek for the infant boy.
Police officers additionally launched a brand new tip line — 912-667-3134 — particularly created for data relating to the kid and his disappearance.
“Discovering Quinton Simon is our highest precedence, and the depth of our work is as sturdy because it has been because the day of his disappearance,” the division stated in an announcement.
