The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office is honoring several people who helped rescue an 11-year-old non-verbal autistic boy from a freeway in March.
An 11-year-old autistic boy who had run away from his family at a supermarket in Santee was rescued after an off-duty dispatcher spotted him alongside State Route 52, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
“The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office wants to thank Sheriff’s Dispatcher Shiloh Corbet, Deputies Cody Green and Michael Moser, as well as the Santee Sheriff’s Station, Lakeside Sheriff’s Substation, Sheriff’s ASTREA, Sheriff’s Communications Center and several Good Samaritans, for working together to find the missing child and getting him to safety,” the department said in a statement.
The child was reported missing on March 9 after he was last seen around 4:30 p.m. at a supermarket in the 9600 block of Mission Gorge Rd. Sheriff’s officials stated that he was non-verbal and had been with family before running out of the store.
Sheriff’s Dispatcher Shiloh Corbet reported witnessing the child running along Mast Boulevard near an on-ramp at approximately 5:15 p.m. March 9 before alerting the Sheriff’s Communication Center, law enforcement said.
Corbet notified dispatchers at the Sheriff’s Communication Center about the child’s whereabouts and reported that he had begun running up the on-ramp. She stopped her vehicle and began following the child, who had crossed the westbound lanes of the freeway and was standing in the center divider.
“Knowing the child’s name from the information given to her by the Sheriff’s Communication Center, Corbert called to him to stay where he was at for his own safety,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
“The entire time, she was relaying information on the phone to an on- duty sheriff’s dispatcher supervisor, who was directing deputies to the scene.”
The child was located at the top of a steep embankment as deputies attempted to contact him, but the child had moved away from them. He began moving toward the center divider guardrail moments before the deputies ran up the embankment and attempted to stop him, but the child jumped over the guardrail and began running along traffic on the freeway.
The deputies managed to get the child off the freeway, and he was later returned safely to his family.
No injuries were reported.
The sheriff’s department’s free Take Me Home Program is intended to help find people with dementia or other cognitive issues who have wandered off or are lost. More information about that program is available here.City News Service contributed to this report.
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