LOS ANGELES, CA — Authorities are asking for help finding two little boys who left their foster parent’s home in the Westalke District in the early morning hours Thursday and may be searching for their birth parents.
The boys, 10 and 2, were reported missing at 1:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Officer Rosario Cervantes. Police believe they may be trying to find their mother in South Los Angeles area.
As of Thursday morning, officers were searching for them in the 300 block of Virgil Avenue. The LAPD has not released photos or names of the missing children.
A police dog was earlier reported to be assisting in the search south of the Westlake District, in the Vermont Square area, where the boys’ might have gone to be with their biological mother, according to a broadcast report from outside the Westlake apartment building where the foster parents and boys live.
The boys’ mother lives in the 1500 block of W. 52nd Street seven miles away from the children’s foster parents, KTLA reported. According to the outlet, the foster parent’s heard awoke to the sound of the children opening door, but by the time they went after them, the children could not be found.
City News Service contributed to this report.