{"id":135533,"date":"2026-02-16T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135533\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:53:07","slug":"nyc-mom-who-claims-missing-son-doesnt-exist-has-tattoo-of-his-name-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135533\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mom who claims missing son doesn’t exist has tattoo of his name: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brooklyn mom who has repeatedly denied<\/a> her missing 11-year-old autistic son even existed \u2013 claiming she is \u201cbarren\u201d \u2013 has a tattoo with the child\u2019s name on her arm, according to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Little Jacob Pritchett is still nowhere to be found after he was reported missing from mother Jacqueline Pritchett\u2019s NYCHA apartment on Howard Avenue in Brownsville in October, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe brought the mom in to speak to her,\u201d Kenny said. <\/p>\n

The NYPD has put out this composite of missing 11-year-old Brooklyn boy Jacob Pritchett, whose mom denies he ever existed. NYPD<\/p>\n

\u201cShe tells us that she is barren [and claims] she does not have a child named Jacob, although she has a Jacob tattoo on her arm,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline, 50, \u201ckeeps getting sent to Rikers<\/a>\u201d for failing to reveal Jacob\u2019s whereabouts but was most recently sprung from custody<\/a> in late December when a judge dismissed the case, Kenny said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the early stages of the investigation in the fall, cadaver dogs sniffed out the Brownsville unit <\/a>and detected blood both on the refrigerator and on a mattress near the dumpsters outside but no sign of Jacob, the police official said.<\/p>\n

Determined investigators also sifted through trash at a waste management plant in Greenpoint and even traveled to the High Acres Landfill in upstate Rochester for any traces of Jacob, according to Kenny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jacob was last seen April 2 when a property manager spotted him, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 2,920,360 pounds of raw garbage was gone through by the NYPD and the New York State Police, unfortunately yielding negative results,\u201d the chief said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last confirmed sighting of Jacob was on April 2 when a property manager saw him, according to Kenny. And earlier in 2025, Jacob waved from a window as his aunt spoke with his mother outside, the chief said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials from the city\u2019s Administration for Children\u2019s Services informed the NYPD that \u201cthere are no records of [Jacob] ever going to school\u201d and that relatives say he was being homeschooled, according to Kenny.<\/p>\n

The investigation into Jacob\u2019s disappearance is going the route of a homicide, officials said. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Jacob was still missing Monday, the NYPD confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At this point, the ongoing case is \u201cmost likely going to be a homicide\u201d due to the blood found in the apartment, Kenny said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know he exists,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know that for a fact. It\u2019s just where is he now?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn mom who has repeatedly denied her missing 11-year-old autistic son even existed \u2013 claiming she is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14836,98,6616,1027,57,13082,9,56,63,65,64,8192,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-135533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-autism","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brownsville","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-missing-children","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-police-investigations","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}