Missing boy found playing J’Ouvert.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday | Wednesday, February 22 2012

FIVE days after he was reported missing, a 12-year-old Point Fortin boy was found safe and sound jumping up in a J’Ouvert band in the southern borough. Carlon James, 12, left his Warden Road, Point Fortin, home to go to the public library at about midday last week Thursday but failed to return home.

After his worried mother Sabrina Brown made checks with friends and relatives and failed to find the boy, she made a report to the Point Fortin Police station. She then contacted his father who lives in Port-of-Spain who in turn contacted Newsday to help him find his missing son.

On Carnival Monday during J’Ouvert celebrations at 9 am, someone spotted the boy and contacted his mother. Ms Brown told Newsday her son was staying at a house not too far from where she lives all the time he was reported missing.

A relieved sounding Ms Brown said: “I am happy to have my son back, but would you believe the police actually went to that house and they told them Carlon was not there, and all the time he right there.” She said she recently stopped Carlon from attending primary school to send him to classes at Servol.