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2-Year-Old Vanishes After Mom Tucks Him In & Is Still Missing Nearly a Week Later

NewsPublished Jun 28, 2019
By Genny Glassman
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Police are searching for a 2-year-old from Hampton, Virginia, after he disappeared from his home in the middle of the night. Officials are still unclear whether Noah Tomlin was taken or if he left his home by mistake, but after days of searching all they know was that the boy was reportedly put to sleep safe and sound in the wee hours Monday and by the next morning he was gone.

Tomlin was last seen at 1 a.m. Monday, when his mother reports putting him to bed.-placeholder
Tomlin was last seen at 1 a.m. Monday, when his mother reports putting him to bed.
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Tomlin was last seen at 1 a.m. Monday, when his mother reports putting him to bed.

The boy's mom tucked him in bed in their mobile home early Monday morning, but discovered he was missing when she went to check on him again at 11 a.m., according to ABC News. She called police around 11:35 a.m. to report that her toddler was nowhere to be found.

Police conducted multiple searches, but Tomlin hasn't been seen since, CNN reported. Police called the Virginia Department of Emergency Management Search Team, the State Police and the FBI to help them look for the boy and ramped up their efforts; their search continued by land, sea, and air, Hampton Police Chief Terry Sult explained.

"We're turning over every stone," Sult continued. "We're going to do everything we can do to bring this child home safely." Authorities have also tried looking for Tomlin using drones and sonar, exhausting every possible avenue to bring the boy home.

"We have looked on land, water; we have checked trash Dumpsters; we have checked neighborhoods, houses, underneath buildings, in sheds; we actually covered the area multiple times with different teams so we would have different eyes checking the same locations repeatedly," he said.

The search for Tomlin is nearing the end of its first week, and police have yet to find him.-placeholder
The search for Tomlin is nearing the end of its first week, and police have yet to find him.
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The search for Tomlin is nearing the end of its first week, and police have yet to find him.

Police have not ruled out any possibilities for where the boy has gone, including foul play. "We are still hopeful that we will find him safe and sound in some location,” Sult told Fox 8. “But we are looking at all potential aspects that this case could lead us to.”

“We are looking at everything from the child walking off to the abduction scenario,” he continued. “There is nothing that we’re not looking at.”

By Wednesday afternoon, Sult said, police had "shifted our search efforts to the landfill," though he admitted there was "no specific information that has led us to the landfill.”

“The longer we go on, the more concerned we are for that child’s safety, particularly if that child is alone. A 2-year-old cannot care for itself. That’s why this is so pressing. That’s why there are so many resources involved in this," Sult told KTLA

"We are still very hopeful that Noah will be found safely and without harm and brought back home,” he said.

That is why police are putting a call out to the public to help them discover any clues that will lead them to the boy.

For now, the boy's parents have been cooperating with police and no charges have been filed against them. Tomlin's mother, who has not been named, has been “holding up as well as you could expect under the circumstances.”

In a text conversation with ABC 13 on Wednesday*,* the mother told them that she's "working real hard with law enforcement to help find my baby. I can't have my location known or whereabouts of my other children for their safety." 

She spoke with reporters again Thursday and told them that there's more reasons to be concerned about her son's well-being. "[Noah] doesn't walk well. His pediatrician said there are signs of him being autistic ... he walks but still [stumbles]."

The mom added that Tomlin has two other siblings, who are safe, but all she wants is to bring her boy home. "Noah belongs home. His family loves and misses him," she said.

Police told KTLA that Noah was last seen wearing a white and green striped pajama shirt and a diaper and added that if anyone has seen signs of the boy to reach out to the Hampton Police immediately at (757) 727-611. Sult said any video or pictures taken in the area where Tomlin disappeared would be particularly helpful, from the time he was last seen at 1 a.m. Monday until today. 

“There’s somebody out there that likely knows something,” he told Fox 8. “We need that piece of information to help guide us as well.”

He said police have "some things that we are working on, but again, we won’t go into that right now.”

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