NYPD intensifies search for missing Brooklyn boy

STATEWIDE — POLICE HAVE RELEASED a computer-generated image of 11-year-old Jacob Pritchett, a Brownsville boy who has been missing for more than two months, seeking all leads – while his mother, Jacqueline Pritchett, 50, continues to deny he exists, reports the New York Daily News.

Jacob, who is autistic and nonverbal, vanished from the family’s Howard Ave. apartment sometime before Sept. 25. The Administration for Children’s Services, assisted by the police, confronted the mother following a hotline tip about the boy’s wellbeing. Pritchett claimed she had never had a child, despite workers producing his birth certificate. She has been jailed at Rikers on a civil contempt warrant for refusing to reveal his whereabouts. 

Police dogs detected Jacob’s scent inside the home, and neighbors reported not seeing him for weeks. A dumpster and upstate landfill search turned up nothing.

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