{"id":19097,"date":"2025-10-27T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19097\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:18:07","slug":"nyc-mom-who-told-cops-her-missing-autistic-son-didnt-exist-is-now-being-held-at-rikers-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19097\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mom who told cops her missing autistic son didn’t exist is now being held at Rikers: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brooklyn mom who eerily told cops her missing 11-year-old non-verbal autistic son never existed is now being held on Rikers Island, law enforcement sources said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The boy \u2013 identified by cops as Jacob Pritchett \u2013 was nowhere to be found when child welfare officials, and later police, swept the Howard Avenue home in late September and early October, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, his 53-year-old mom \u2013 who is not officially being identified by police \u2013 is being held on Rikers Island on a Brooklyn Family Court warrant for failure to produce the child, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jacob Pritchett, 11. was nowhere to be found when authorities swept the Howard Avenue home in late September and early October, the sources said.\u00a0 NYPD<\/p>\n

She allegedly flew into a rage during an Oct. 1 NYPD visit and claimed she lived alone with no children, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

NYPD 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 reported hadn\u2019t been seen for about two months, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

Pritchett\u2019s mom \u2014 who claimed she didn\u2019t have a son \u2014 is being held on Rikers Island on a family court warrant, sources said. NYPD<\/p>\n

Following that visit, Pritchett\u2019s mom 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 home where Pritchett had lived with his mom \u2013 for any signs of the boy, according to WHAM<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cops on Friday released a computer-generated image that predicted what Pritchett would look like today.<\/p>\n

Neighbors reported that they hadn\u2019t seen the non-verbal 11-year-old boy in about two months, sources said. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

His whereabouts were still unknown Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). <\/p>\n

The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n

All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn mom who eerily told cops her missing 11-year-old non-verbal autistic son never existed is now being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,57,13082,13083,9,56,63,65,64,8192,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-19097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-missing-children","11":"tag-moms","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-police-investigations","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097","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=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}