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A six-year-old autistic boy from Miami who went missing two months ago and was purportedly abducted by his father and grandmother has been found safe and sound in Canada, 2,000 miles away.
After his father failed to deliver the boy to his mother at their Miami residence as per their custody arrangement, Jorge “Jojo” Morales has been missing since August 27.
After a tip led Royal Canadian Mounted Police to Jojo at a Walmart in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Jorge Morales, 45, and his paternal grandmother, Lilliam Morales, 68, were detained. He was described as being “in good health and uninjured.”
Mother of Jojo Yanet Leal Concepcion claims to have been experiencing a nightmare for more than two months. However, on Sunday, she received a call from an FBI agent telling her that her son had been located and was safe. She’s spoken to her son, but they haven’t yet been reunited.
Concepcion told CBS Miami, “I almost passed out on the floor when he said I have wonderful news for you. And I got to talk to my son, which was amazing, ”
He says he misses me, and you know I love him so much, said the happy mother, who couldn’t help but smile as she continued. Oh, and he wanted pizza,” she laughed.
Since the end of August, when an Amber Alert was issued, there has been a significant nationwide hunt for Jojo.
Investigators claim that as part of the joint custody court order, Jojo was picked up by his paternal grandmother.
The child’s father was ordered by the court to deliver him back to the child’s mother at their Miami residence, but he failed to do so.
Concepcion went to Morale’s apartment to look for her son and discovered that it was empty and that her son had vanished.
Everything was missing. She said, “His apartment was empty. He had his phone off. His mother’s phone was inactive.
Jojo, on the autism spectrum, had started to tell his mother things like his dad wanting “to take him to live on a farm with windmills and wanted me to go with him,” the distraught mother said in a request for assistance in finding her son.
She said, “According to chats she recorded with him, he had indicated that “evil people are attempting to take me away.”
According to documents obtained by the Miami Herald, the couple has been engaged in a heated custody battle since Concepcion filed for divorce from Morales in January 2019.
In November 2021, Concepcion’s emergency motion to suspend his time-sharing rights with JoJo was finally approved after initially being rejected.
According to Concepcion, Jojo’s father and grandmother had been preparing for the abduction for a year in order to live “off the grid.”
According to online records, Morales allowed his nursing license to lapse on July 31. The Miami Herald stated that his mother made roughly $100,000 when she sold their Homestead residence in October 2021.
JoJo and Jorge Morales were seen on security footage taken on August 29 outside a Walgreens in Houlton, Maine, according to the FBI and the NCMEC.
Since that time, they’ve been residing in a rental apartment at the South Point complex in West Perrine, where Concepcion went hunting for her son after Morales left him behind.
After a few days, Miami-Dade police released an Amber Alert.
The boy hadn’t been seen for a month when the U.S. Border Patrol discovered an SUV in Main with some of JoJo’s stuff inside.
Earlier this week, the FBI and the NCMEC published security footage that revealed JoJo and Jorge Morales were in a Walgreens in Houlton, Maine, on August 29, and the U.S. Marshals boosted their reward to $25,000 for information that resulted in the father and grandmother’s arrest.
The RCMP stated on Twitter on Sunday that the search had been successful after the youngster and his father were found in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Autism-affected Jojo had started telling his mother that his father intended to take him to live “on a farm with windmills and wanted me to go with him,” among other things.
A vehicle associated with the elder Morales and his mother, Lilliam Pena Morales (shown right), was discovered by the National Center for Missing Children last month in Littleton, Maine.
The father and son were seen by the caller, who reported the sighting at a Walmart in Moncton, which is 2,004 miles away from Miami, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Concepcion stated, “OMG, I have no words,” in a statement sent through the NCMEC. It is impossible to thank everyone just once. I’m truly appreciative of the community’s help, and I’ve even seen Canadians who don’t even know us place flyers there!
The United States and State Attorney’s Office, along with local, state, federal, and international law enforcement, came together once again for the safety of a kid, and they will continue to cooperate in fighting the bigger evil, according to Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez.
Concepcion announced that she is now going to take her kid on a Disney cruise, a vacation that she claims he has been longing to do for some time but that his father would never let him take.
I’m just grateful that I can share a positive outcome because I know that many other mothers don’t, while I do.
