Toddler Found Wandering Alone in Bell Reunited with Family

BELL, Calif. (KTLA) -- A toddler who was found wandering the streets alone in Bell early Tuesday morning has been reunited with his family.

The boy's mother, grandmother and uncle rushed to the Bell police station around 6:15 a.m. The mother was sobbing and begging to see her son.

They said the boy's name is Daniel and that he is 2 years old.

The family told KTLA that they had a celebration Monday night to welcome the grandmother from Mexico.

They went to bed late, and they had no idea that Daniel unlocked the door, opened it and went outside all by himself.

A Good Samaritan found the boy around 3 a.m. in the 6700 block of Chanslor Avenue and contacted police.

"I came home from work and I saw a little boy standing here crying," the man, who identified himself only as Miguel, said. "He's been crying for a while."

Daniel was wearing plaid shorts, a sweatshirt and sandals and was visibly upset when officers took him back to the station.

Police went door-to-door in the area, but they could not locate the boy's parents.

Then, this morning, when Daniel's mother went into his room and looked under his covers, she discovered that he was gone.

"I was sleeping and my sister came to my room and she said, 'Hey, my son is in your room?'" the boy's uncle, Moises Rodriguez recalled.

"I said, 'No, he's not here. So she was screaming a lot around the house. She went outside to look for him. All the neighbors were helping," he said.

"Then a girl from another house said, 'Oh, the police came and took the baby.'"

Investigators and social workers were talking with the family to make sure everything checks out.

Detectives said that they expected the reunited family would be allowed to go home shortly.

Source: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bell-boy-found-alone,0,1235148.story?track=rss

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