NY NY - Jacob Pritchette, 11, autistic, not seen several weeks, mother arrested, Brownsville/Brooklyn, Sept 2025

[Darling136]

Mother in custody as police investigate possible missing 11-year-old boy in New York City: sources

While the child's mother denies the boy is in her apartment, the NYPD says a K-9 cadaver dog got a hit on the refrigerator for human blood.

abc7chicago.com

Mother arrested after welfare check, where the boy was nowhere to be found, but cadaver dogs alerted for human blood at the refrigirator.

Note: i was not able to copy from the link, so this is just a very short intro.

 

[tlcya]

While the child's mother denies the boy is in her Brooklyn apartment, the NYPD says a K-9 cadaver dog got a hit on the refrigerator for human blood.
Mother in custody as police investigate possible missing 11-year-old boy in New York City: sources

Officials say that when the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) was initially called to the apartment on reports of child abuse, they say the mother denied even having a child. However, ACS has recovered a birth certificate with the woman as the listed mother.
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Neighbors say they have rarely ever seen the boy.

There's no record of him attending public schools and there's no record of him anywhere.
Mother in custody as police investigate possible missing 11-year-old boy in New York City: sources

Mother in custody as police investigate possible missing 11-year-old boy in Brownsville: sources

they need to release this woman's name.

 

[Gemmie]

Mother in custody as police investigate possible missing 11-year-old boy in New York City: sources

While the child's mother denies the boy is in her apartment, the NYPD says a K-9 cadaver dog got a hit on the refrigerator for human blood.

abc7chicago.com

Mother arrested after welfare check, where the boy was nowhere to be found, but cadaver dogs alerted for human blood at the refrigirator.

Note: i was not able to copy from the link, so this is just a very short intro.

This is NOT sounding good, folks.

Notes from your link:

• he has never attended public school
• LE is waiting for a search warrant to more thoroughly examine the home
• ACS (Administration for Children's Services) was initially called to the apartment on reports of child abuse
• mother denied even having a child.
• ACS has recovered a birth certificate with the woman as the listed mother.
• ACS called police to help with a welfare check. Jacob was nowhere to be found
• Neighbors say Jacob has autism, has been missing for several "weeks."
• Neighbors also say they have rarely ever seen him.
• A man has not seen the boy in years but remembers him having autism.
• Another neighbor said they heard the mother yell. "Yelling, it seemed like she was talking to somebody,"
• During the search LE discovered there was no electricity in the apartment.

Original source of my notes: Mother in custody as police investigate possible missing 11-year-old boy in New York City: sources

 

[Gemmie]

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[Gemmie]

"I would always see a little boy in the window playing with his toys by himself making noise, and since all of this has taken place, I realized to myself like, the boy is not in the window no more. I haven't seen him like all summer," said Crystal Burrell, a neighbor. "All summer, he has not been in the window, so it's a sad situation."
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Investigators executed a search warrant at the building, but there were no signs of the boy in the apartment, the backyard or the dumpsters behind the building.

Search continues for missing 11-year-old boy in Brownsville, Brooklyn; mother in custody

Video captures police scouring the area overnight near the apartment building on Howard Avenue in Brownsville where 11-year-old Jacob Pritchette lived.

abc7ny.com

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Oh no. I hate to think what may have happened to this little guy. I bet his mother collects benefits for him, so why was he not required to be attending a special school, in therapies, or something? How sad that apparently no one was in his life to notice he was missing pretty quickly.
ETA: Except whomever called in the welfare check, perhaps. That person deserves appreciation for doing the right thing and getting involved.

 

[Darling136]

We have a last name for Jacob , it is Pritchette, i will update the title

Search continues for missing 11-year-old boy in Brownsville, Brooklyn; mother in custody

Video captures police scouring the area overnight near the apartment building on Howard Avenue in Brownsville where 11-year-old Jacob Pritchette lived.

abc7ny.com

 

[Stunned]

Oh no. I hate to think what may have happened to this little guy. I bet his mother collects benefits for him, so why was he not required to be attending a special school, in therapies, or something? How sad that apparently no one was in his life to notice he was missing pretty quickly.
ETA: Except whomever called in the welfare check, perhaps. That person deserves appreciation for doing the right thing and getting involved.

I'm very curious about who called in the wellness check. When was the last time they saw him? Who was/is he to them?

 

[Gemmie]

I'm very curious about who called in the wellness check. When was the last time they saw him? Who was/is he to them?

My guess from the articles I've read points to it being a neighbor. They are the ones that noticed they haven't seen him for weeks, or the one neighbor that realized they no longer saw him playing in the window. JMO on that.

 

[Stunned]

My guess from the articles I've read points to it being a neighbor. They are the ones that noticed they haven't seen him for weeks, or the one neighbor that realized they no longer saw him playing in the window. JMO on that.

Mine also, but I was really hoping it was a family member.

 

[Serononin]

There's something particularly sickening about the fact she denied even having a child to begin with. She not only likely killed that poor child, but tried to erase his existence altogether

 

[tlcya]

yeah, I am betting he's been MIA for way longer than a few weeks and that LE will find no evidence the child ever existed once they search the apartment/home.

 

[Gemmie]

yeah, I am betting he's been MIA for way longer than a few weeks and that LE will find no evidence the child ever existed once they search the apartment/home.

You have more faith in her intelligence than I do. lol

I'll bet there are traces of him, even if it's just his DNA in the blood on the fridge the cadaver dog made a hit on.

 

[tlcya]

You have more faith in her intelligence than I do. lol

I'll bet there are traces of him, even if it's just his DNA in the blood on the fridge the cadaver dog made a hit on.

I should rephrase. they won't find a toy, an article of clothing, nothing of him aside from possible dna

 

[Gemmie]

I should rephrase. they won't find a toy, an article of clothing, nothing of him aside from possible dna

Let's bet!

I think she'll have overlooked something. A toy, or a broken off piece of one that rolled under some furniture, a sock under the couch cushions, or an article of clothing in the hamper she missed.

Keep in mind there was no electricity so things could be easily missed, even if she got down on her knees and peered under furniture. I'll further bet that she did no kneeling to look under things, and instead emptied out drawers and got rid of his toys thinking she got it all. I'll put on it!

 

[tlcya]

Let's bet!

I think she'll have overlooked something. A toy, or a broken off piece of one that rolled under some furniture, a sock under the couch cushions, or an article of clothing in the hamper she missed.

Keep in mind there was no electricity so things could be easily missed, even if she got down on her knees and peered under furniture. I'll further bet that she did no kneeling to look under things, and instead emptied out drawers and got rid of his toys thinking she got it all. I'll put on it!

Bet, I got five on it