‘I’ve got the boy’: Three-year-old AJ found 500m from where he vanished 72 hours earlier

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Three-year-old Anthony “AJ” Elfalak sat in a creek bed cupping water to his face about 500 metres from where he had vanished while playing with his brothers three days earlier

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On Sunday, police seized a ute from a rural property about 80 kilometres from where AJ had last been seen. Police also searched an abandoned shack, about one kilometre from the Elfalaks’ farm, after receiving reports that a member of the public heard sounds they thought could be a child screaming or crying.

“They embraced at that moment,” Hunter Region SES Commander Chief Inspector Simon Merrick said. “[AJ] turned towards him with a massive smile on his face that [his rescuer] will not forget.” He said AJ had some lacerations on his lower legs, his temperature was most likely helped by him sitting in the water, and he had a bit of nappy rash.AJ slept in the back of the ambulance for about an hour and a half while being checked over before waking up and eating three slices of pizza and a banana.

“The mother was preparing lunch, I was assisting, sitting on the hammock ... the kids were outside playing. The two eldest boys, Michael and Patrick, were in charge of looking after their brother, although their father was also outside fixing one of the quad bikes,” he said. “We instantly dispatched all the [all terrain vehicles], four of them, and just covered about a thousand metres each direction.”AJ’s aunt Mirolla Sawan said she had slept on a pool table because the house had been filled with searchers on Sunday night.

 

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I'm so happy for them. I can't imagine the anguish and despair and all the terrible time that those poor parents and family had. I'm so glad they found their little one alive and well.

Remember the song LITTLE BOY LOST. A small boy was lost in the Armidale area in the New England Ranges. Good outcome too. Over 40 years ago.

Good.

Great that he's safe and home but is there something a bit strange about this.

Let’s hope all peddlers of ridiculous conspiracy theories, no matter WHO they are, learn a lesson from this. Sometimes it’s the SIMPLE explanation that people least accept. Children who “never wander” actually CAN wander, families don’t necessarily disappear their kids, etc etc

Lucky outcome, I was starting to fear the worst 🙏🏻

Amazing work all involved! Queue the conspiracy theorists in 3,2,1…

This has David Paulides all over it. canammissing

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