{"id":279405,"date":"2025-10-05T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279405\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:40:16","slug":"nypd-shares-sketch-of-missing-autistic-brooklyn-boy-11-whose-mom-denies-she-has-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279405\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD shares sketch of missing autistic Brooklyn boy, 11, whose mom denies she has son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police released a sketch Saturday of an 11-year-old autistic Brooklyn boy who has gone missing<\/a> \u2014 whose mother has denied to police that she has a son \u2014 in hopes someone will recognize him.<\/p>\n

Jacob Pritchett, 11, was reported by police to have last been seen residing with his mother inside their home near East New York and Howard Aves.<\/a> in Brownsville. The youngster is said by police to be nonverbal and unable to provide identifying information.<\/p>\n

Described as having a medium complexion, brown eyes and black hair, Jacob may have been missing for more than a month and perhaps since as long ago as mid-August, cops and a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n

Asked why police provided a sketch rather than a photograph of the boy, a department spokesperson said, \u201cThat\u2019s all we have at this time. What we have, we put out.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear when Jacob was last seen, though neighbors told responding officers they haven\u2019t seen the child for at least six weeks, possibly eight, police sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d be chilling outside, and you\u2019d see the boy in the window,\u201d neighbor Evelyn Rolon, 49, said. \u201cHe had a little car he played with. He never came out. He didn\u2019t go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horrible,\u201d she said about the boy going missing.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Administration for Children\u2019s Services<\/a> first got wind of the missing child on Sept. 25, when they received a phone call on a state hotline from a person concerned about the boy\u2019s well-being, police sources said.<\/p>\n

ACS investigators then visited the home that same day but the mother refused to let them in. Once cops were called to the scene, the mother allowed the officers and investigators inside, but claimed she could not physically have children and didn\u2019t have a child.<\/p>\n

ACS investigators returned to the apartment at 1:33 p.m. this past Wednesday, again accompanied by police.<\/p>\n

When she opened the door, the mother repeated that she didn\u2019t have a child, even though investigators confirmed that she did. She let the police into the apartment, but Jacob was nowhere to be found, a police source said.<\/p>\n

As cops thoroughly searched the building, as well as nearby dumpsters \u2014 even recruiting NYPD K9 police dogs to help in the search \u2014 officers took the mother to the 73rd Precinct stationhouse. She was ultimately taken by medics to Brookdale University Hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n

A green police seal was later placed on the door of the apartment where Jacob and his mother lived.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding the missing boy and this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers<\/a> Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released a sketch Saturday of an 11-year-old autistic Brooklyn boy who has gone missing \u2014 whose mother…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-279405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-county","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-crime","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115321374789230083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}