3-Year-Old Toddler, Missing for 3 Days, Found Alive
This is close to where I live and we’ve been following the news closely. It was below freezing, he was soaking wet and had no food or water, of course.
After more than three days of being lost in the woods, OPP say they have found a missing three-year-old boy “alive and well.”
OPP announced that three-year-old Jude Leyton, who went missing in South Frontenac, Ont., off of Canoe Lake Road, was recovered Wednesday before 4 p.m.
OPP have been searching for the boy since Sunday around noon. In a tweet, OPP said one of their emergency response team officers found the boy.
Jude was found 980 metres away from the place he was last seen, Const. Curtis Dick told Global News in an interview. This came just about an hour after police said they were reducing the number of officers dedicated to the ground search.
Police believe the toddler wandered away from Bing Retreat Sunday, a property the Leyton family owns. Search and rescue teams have been scouring the woods and water nearby ever since.
OPP say Jude is in good condition but is being checked on by paramedics. Frontenac Paramedics took Jude to Kingston General Hospital Wednesday evening by ambulance.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 1, 2021 10:39 AM
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Not every story has a happy ending.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 31, 2021 10:28 PM
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Proof that angels DO EXIST
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 31, 2021 10:32 PM
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Was Matt Gaetz the last person to see him before he disappeared?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 31, 2021 10:38 PM
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How does a 3-yr. old "wander away"? How far could those little legs carry him before anyone noticed?
Sounds like he was dumped.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 31, 2021 10:45 PM
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Something’s very fishy about that story. How was he kept alive for three days?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 31, 2021 10:51 PM
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Yeah, R5, something is off about this story.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 31, 2021 11:02 PM
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Actually, this is relatively easy for people under 4 years old to do. They will always survive.
Once you get up to 5 and 6 year olds and up, they don’t fare as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 31, 2021 11:08 PM
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R8 I think it has to do with survival instincts. And I think that modern times interfere with those instincts as a child ages.
No expert here.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 31, 2021 11:15 PM
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Could also have something to do with the staying put vs wandering.
Staying put is said to be better for survival....younger tots might be more prone to staying put.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 31, 2021 11:17 PM
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They found a 2 year old in 2019. Days in the woods. I’m sure the kid was scared out of his mind though. Can you imagine.
Actually he wasn’t even 2 yet. He was technically one.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 31, 2021 11:23 PM
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so what you are saying is IF you want them to wander away you need to wait until they are older?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 31, 2021 11:33 PM
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[QUOTE] This came just about an hour after police said they were reducing the number of officers dedicated to the ground search.
They were ready to get out the cadaver dogs.
“Mr. and Mrs. Leyton, your son’s going to be just fine.”
“Okay everybody, put on your corpse handling gloves!”
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 31, 2021 11:34 PM
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Well, another benefit to leaving your boys intact is that they have a greater chance of surviving in the wild. We joke about Canada being a backward uncut country, but they obviously know what they are doing.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 31, 2021 11:45 PM
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[quote]Proof that angels DO EXIST
You're proof that idiots exist.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 31, 2021 11:55 PM
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That's just over a half a mile and it took them 3 days to find him?!!! Were the dogs 20 yrs old and senile?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 31, 2021 11:57 PM
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Long ago I read a book by a woman who'd been acting in teams searching for missing people and then became a P.I. One thing I remember is that missing children walk downhill and missing adults walk uphill.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 1, 2021 12:22 AM
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How awful must he have smelled NOT to be eaten by wolves?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 1, 2021 12:34 AM
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I guess God took a look and said, "EW... I thought I wanted another angel but not THIS one."
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 1, 2021 12:37 AM
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I think it’s that very little kids will stop when they get tired and go to sleep, so they don’t get as far.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 1, 2021 12:38 AM
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My stupid shih tzu could have found him in 30 minutes.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 1, 2021 12:44 AM
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R16, it always baffles me when this happens, but it happens a lot. There was a story about a missing kid who was found (dead) in an abandoned car that was on his family’s property, maybe 100 feet from the house.
Glad he was found, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 1, 2021 12:51 AM
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[quote] [R16], it always baffles me when this happens, but it happens a lot. There was a story about a missing kid who was found (dead) in an abandoned car that was on his family’s property, maybe 100 feet from the house.
There was a case in the UK a few years ago where a twelve-year-old was killed by her grandmother's paedophile boyfriend. It took the police a week to find her body in her own house, in the loft they had searched three fucking times previously.
Glad this kid was found safe, anyway.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 1, 2021 1:00 AM
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They shoulda, like, just tracked the GPS on his cellphone.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 1, 2021 1:18 AM
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I smell another balloon-boy type family angling for a reality show or other publicity. This story makes no sense otherwise.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 1, 2021 9:34 AM
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Probably a Grindr hookup gone bad
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 1, 2021 10:39 AM
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