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A new NYPD sketch depicts the 11-year-old autistic boy reported missing from his Brooklyn apartment – and whose mother has denied the existence of her child, according to law enforcement sources.
The drawing – released by the NYPD Saturday night – shows Jacob Pritchett, who was last reported living with his mom inside an apartment building on Howard Avenue near East New York Avenue in Brownsville, the sources said.
It comes days after cops and ACS workers visited the home on Wednesday, sources said.
When police asked the boy’s mom where her son was, she flew into a rage and insisted that she never had a child and lived alone, according to the sources.
NYPD detectives ultimately brought a K9 dog into the apartment, which detected traces of human blood in or around the refrigerator, the sources said.
But the boy was nowhere to be found, cops said.
Pritchett’s mom was hospitalized as an “emotionally disturbed person” on Wednesday, but was not immediately facing criminal charges, sources confirmed.
ACS workers first visited the apartment a week earlier, on Sept. 25. At the time, his mom refused to hand over the boy’s birth certificate, the sources said.
The visit by ACS workers came after reports from neighbors that they hadn’t seen the boy in nearly two months, according to sources.
The case workers searched the home but found no signs that the boy lived there at the time, the sources said.
No updates were available on the boy’s condition or whereabouts Monday.
He is described as a male with medium complexion, brown eyes and black hair.
He is nonverbal and unable to provide any identifying information, according to cops.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crimestoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
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