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Kenneth's parents were concerned that someone kidnapped him and offered him a reward of $ 5,000 (Video: Special)
Sunday at 19:30 Kenneth Neil Howard He had gone out to play in the garden of his home in Magoffin County, Kentucky. When his father went to get him a few minutes later, the two-year-old boy had disappeared.
For more than an hour, alarmed parents visited the surroundings of the house and the lush forest that surrounded it. They shouted his name and tried to find his trace, without success. Afraid of having kidnapped him, the couple alerted the police.
An operation was then launched within 800 meters of Kenneth's home. Crews of agents, firefighters and volunteers, horses, drones, bloodhounds, all-terrain vehicles and helicopters They searched the area for three days, meter by meter. The place where the child was was a mystery.
"I was dying of cold and I was soaked, and every time I thought I was frozen, the image of the baby came back to my head and tears in my eyes. I did not want to give upsaid the head of the Magoffin South Fire Department, Brent Handshoe, WYMT.
Given Kenneth's age, it did not seem likely that he had traveled a great distance. However, the rescue team decided to increase the radius look for a kilometer and a half from the starting point, the family home.
"I just want her to come home safe and sound," said her father, Elden Howard, in an interview with WYMT. "I can not eat, I can not sleep", added after offering a $ 5,000 reward to anyone who provided him with information that could help Kenneth find.
Wednesday afternoon, a division of the Prestonsburg Fire Department He stopped a few minutes to rearrange himself, after intense hours of research, said Unit Chief Michael Brown in an interview with Hello America.
That's when one of the firefighters heard a noise. They all fell silent and realized that in the distance you could hear a baby crying.
"We were all silent and started calling the boy by name and sporadically sometimes he shouted at us and we We tried to find out where it came fromsaid Prestonsburg Fire Chief Michael Brown.
"We heard it three or four times more, we parted and two team members They went up the hill and found it. I was sitting on top of a small plain, "he added.
Kenneth Neil was alone at 500 meters from your house, near old mines. At two, he had resisted three days alone in the open air. When they found it I was dehydratedand we do not know how he survived cold and hunger.
When the authorities communicated with the father of the child, he could not believe it, he did not want to feed false hopes. He asked them to send a picture of the child they had found.
"It's my boy!" He checked excited. "It was the best thing that happened to me in my life," he said later.
The little one was transferred to Cabell Huntington Hospitalin West Virginia, where he is recovering from dehydration. A doctor who badisted him revealed that he had eaten animal-shaped biscuits and drank an apple juice. His condition, he said, is stable and his life is not in danger.
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