Volunteers on horseback and all-terrain vehicles joined the search Monday for a 3-year-old boy who slipped out of his home in rural southeast Missouri.Joshua Childers was reported missing by his parents shortly after noon Monday, Madison County Sheriff David Lewis said. The boy had not been found by late Monday night as the search continued in a rugged area near the Madison-Iron county line between Fredericktown and Ironton.
The blond toddler, about 3 feet tall and weighing 35 pounds, was wearing a dark blue shirt and a pull-up diaper when he left his house near Arcadia through the back door around 11:30 a.m., the sheriff said. His father works nights and was asleep at the time.
Lewis said Joshua had been gone about five minutes when his parents noticed he was missing. The couple searched about 45 minutes in the hilly terrain around their home, then called authorities. Helicopters flew over the area as officers from local police and sheriffs' departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol searched a half-mile area around the home.
Hundreds of volunteers then joined the effort, and Missouri Department of Corrections bloodhounds from the state prison at Farmington were brought in. The weather was mild, with temperatures around 55 degrees late Monday, but Lewis noted that the sparsely populated area is dotted with ponds and creeks.
Arcadia is about 75 miles southwest of St. Louis. If you have any information, please cal the Madison County, MO Sheriff's Department at (573) 783-2234.
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The blond toddler, about 3 feet tall and weighing 35 pounds, was wearing a dark blue shirt and a pull-up diaper when he left his house near Arcadia through the back door around 11:30 a.m., the sheriff said. His father works nights and was asleep at the time.
Lewis said Joshua had been gone about five minutes when his parents noticed he was missing. The couple searched about 45 minutes in the hilly terrain around their home, then called authorities. Helicopters flew over the area as officers from local police and sheriffs' departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol searched a half-mile area around the home.
Hundreds of volunteers then joined the effort, and Missouri Department of Corrections bloodhounds from the state prison at Farmington were brought in. The weather was mild, with temperatures around 55 degrees late Monday, but Lewis noted that the sparsely populated area is dotted with ponds and creeks.
Arcadia is about 75 miles southwest of St. Louis. If you have any information, please cal the Madison County, MO Sheriff's Department at (573) 783-2234.
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