{"id":440862,"date":"2025-12-11T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440862\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:25:13","slug":"nyc-mom-who-claimed-her-missing-autistic-son-didnt-exist-released-from-jail-but-still-no-answers-on-his-whereabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440862\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mom who claimed her missing autistic son didn’t exist released from jail \u2014 but still no answers on his whereabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brooklyn mom who allegedly insisted her long-missing 11-year-old autistic son did not exist<\/a> was released from Rikers Island this week after her lawyers argued for her Fifth Amendment rights, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Pritchett, 50, was cut loose Tuesday from the notorious city jail complex where she\u2019d been held since October on a family court warrant for allegedly refusing to answer questions about her son, Jacob Pritchett.<\/p>\n

Her attorney invoked her right to protect herself from self-incrimination, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn mom who allegedly insisted her long-missing 11-year-old autistic son did not exist was released from Rikers Island this week after her lawyers argued for her Fifth Amendment rights, law enforcement sources said. DCPI<\/p>\n

Jacob was nowhere to be found in late September and early October when child welfare officials \u2013 and later police \u2013 swept the Howard Avenue home where he was believed to have lived with his mom, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Pritchett allegedly flew into a rage during one NYPD visit and claimed she lived alone with no children, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

Jacob was nowhere to be found in late September and early October when child welfare officials.<\/p>\n

Detectives ultimately brought a K9 dog into the apartment, which detected traces of human blood in or around the refrigerator, the sources said.<\/p>\n

But investigators found no signs of the boy \u2014 who neighbors claimed hadn\u2019t been seen for about two months, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

Following that visit, Jacqueline was taken to the hospital, where she was considered an \u201cemotionally disturbed person,\u201d the sources said.<\/p>\n

About a week later, the NYPD swept the High Acres Landfill in Fairport, Western New York \u2013 more than 300 miles from the Brownsville home \u2013 for any signs of the boy,\u00a0according to WHAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Pritchett allegedly flew into a rage during one NYPD visit and claimed she lived alone with no children, according to the sources. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

And in late October, police released a computer-generated image that predicted what Jacob would look like today.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Pritchett was nowhere to be found during The Post\u2019s visit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But urgent letters had posted on her apartment door, ordering Pritchett to vacate the premises and noting that the landlord would be removing the items inside and changing the locks on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The NYPD said Thursday that there were no updates on the investigation into Jacob\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn mom who allegedly insisted her long-missing 11-year-old autistic son did not exist was released from Rikers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5248,31740,57134,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,17049,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-440862","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-metro","11":"tag-missing-children","12":"tag-moms","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-police-investigations","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115702813598730356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440862","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=440862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}