HAPPY REUNION: Sarah, holding Freddie, making her way out of Jalan Tun Razak police station yesterday. — Bernama photo
KUALA LUMPUR: Freddie Joseph, the 20 month-old boy abducted from his mother’s home in Bangsar on Friday, has been found at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa at noon yesterday.
The boy who looked exhausted and hungry was found by lorry driver Hamid Md Isa, 57, who was passing the area at about 12.20pm.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) retireee said on seeing a boy walking alone, he led the boy to the edge of the field for a rest.
Freddie Joseph was clad in a green shirt and white pants.
Taxi driver Haris Mohd Nor, 48, who was also in the vicinity bought some crackers and a packet drink for Freddie.
“I just read a newspaper report that a boy was abducted. I could not believe that he is that boy.
“When I approached him, he kept quiet but was not that scared. He looked very exhausted,” Haris told Bernama when met at the scene.
Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Domestic News Service, Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), Datuk Zakaria Abdul Wahab who happened to be there had informed the General News Desk of the finding.
Zakaria said he was on the way home after exercising in the park when he saw a group of people surrounding a boy.
“I sensed that the boy was the one abducted yesterday as he did not look local. I phoned and send his photograph to a Bernama reporter to verify if he was that boy.”
The Bernama reporter then sent the photograph to a friend of the boy’s mother named Robert who confirmed that it was the abducted boy.
The police arrived shortly at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa and took Freddie to the Jalan Tun Razak police station.
In the 6.10pm incident Friday, Freddie was abducted by a man and a woman who arrived at his mother’s house in a white Toyota Camry.
Sarah Joseph,38, who was feeding Freddie outside the house had gone briefly inside after hearing some noise.
On returning, she was shocked to find that a man had snatched Freddie and screamed for help.
The British language teacher suffered injury to the right hand after she grappled with the man.
Meanwhile, Sarah arrived at Jalan Tun Razak police station at about 1.30pm yesterday accompanied by several friends. Clad in a brown blouse and grey trousers, she looked very happy to be reunited with her son Freddie after 18 hours.
Hugging Freddie, she was brought into the police station to make a statement. She spent about one hour there. – Bernama