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One-year-old Blaise Barnett, who went missing in Georgia after being kidnapped in his mother’s car, was found on November 11, after a day-and-a-half search.
According to ABC7, a woman
called the police saying that the baby showed up inside her car.“I instantly started crying, a rush of just happiness. I was speechless,” Deonna Bray, Barnett’s mom, said.
Bray reported her baby missing on November 10 after someone hopped into her SUV, which was unlocked at the time, and drove away with the infant sitting in his car seat.
“I’ve never been away from him like this where I don’t know where he’s at, so I’m hurt … Bring him back safely and unharmed in the quickest way possible,” Bray said at the time.
Bray said that her son was left inside the parked car while she and the child’s father took groceries down from their apartment in Clarkston.
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“We got home maybe around 1:00 or 1:06, 1:10 maybe, we dropped our nephew at the house and the stuff that we had, and we came back outside to get my baby, but as we come back outside, the car wasn’t out there. And he wasn’t out here,” Bray
said, according to WSBTV.“It [the SUV] wasn’t running; it was unlocked because he was doing a quick trip, so it wasn’t like he was in the house for too long, but the keys weren’t in the ignition at all. It was in the cupholder,” she added.
James Dent, a local who helped in the search for Barnett, said he found the stolen SUV and identified a man running away when he got to the car.
However, police reported that the person was not connected to the stolen vehicle nor the disappearance of baby Barnett.
Bray was overwhelmed with relief after her son was finally back home. “We got him. When he said that I was like, ‘You got him?’ Everybody was just screaming, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, OK,’ and I started crying … I just knew now my baby’s safe,” Bray said.
Barnett was medically evaluated, and medics said that the child was in “good condition.”