Missing Child Alert Issued for 8 Years Old Peyton Blodgett Missing Since 10/25/14 in Macclenny, Florida

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Search continues for autistic boy in Baker County
8-year-old Peyton Kyler Blodgett last seen at noon Saturday in Macclenny
Author: Heather Leigh, Mobile journalist, hleigh@wjxt.com
Nicholas Jones, Producer, njones@wjxt.com
Published On: Oct 26 2014 09:04:18 AM EDT   Updated  53 m

MACCLENNY, Fla. -

As the search for 8-year-old Peyton Blodgett entered a second day, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office dive team joined the effort. The dive team searched two ponds. Nothing was found in those ponds.

A Florida Missing Child Alert was issued Saturday for 8-year-old Peyton Kyler Blodgett, who was last seen about noon Saturday on South State Road 121 in Macclenny.
Saturday afternoon, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office had joined the Baker County Sheriff's Office, contributing a helicopter and more K-9 teams to the effort.

" We appreciate the people who want to volunteer for the search. We have a day with all these agencies who have come here to assist. We have protocols set up today. We appreciate people wanting to volunteer. We have certain protocols set up first. After that we may have the need for volunteers," said Sheriff Joey Dobson.
 

The Baker County Press said the grandmother and her boyfriend, seven-time felon Jerry Carter, will be given lie-detector tests on Sunday. Most of Carter’s convictions are for non-violent offenses, although there was one aggravated assault count on a law enforcement officer, the sheriff said.

“I don’t think (the test) will turn out good,” he conceded.

 

 

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Search for missing Baker County autistic boy to continue Monday
8-year-old Peyton Kyler Blodgett last seen at noon Saturday in Macclenny
Author: Heather Leigh, Mobile journalist, hleigh@wjxt.com
Nicholas Jones, Producer, njones@wjxt.com
Published On: Oct 26 2014 09:04:18 AM EDT   Updated  27 m

MACCLENNY, Fla. -

Local, state and federal officials with helicopters, K-9s and even a dive team found no trace of Peyton Blodgett, an autistic 8-year-old boy who disappeared from his grandmother's home in Macclenny at noon Saturday.

The Baker County Sheriff's Office has provided a new briefing to the media late Sunday afternoon.

Police said Blodgett's father was with police and deputies searching wooded areas near where the boy was last seen. Authorities say the father may be able to assist in the search and point out places that the autistic child may hide.

Earlier in the day, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office dive team joined the effort searching two nearby ponds. Nothing was found in those ponds.

 

Peyton Blodgett’s mother speaks
October 27, 2014
http://www.news4jax.com/news/peyton-blodgetts-mother-speaks/29355520

Missing 8-year-old boy found alive in Baker County
Oct 27, 2014

A missing 8-year-old Baker County boy with autism has been found alive following a weekend-long search that had been expanded on Monday, according to the Baker County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Joey Dobson confirmed that Peyton Kyler Blodgett has been taken to Fraser Memorial Hospital for treatment after days of exposure in the woods. The sheriff said they found the boy near his home, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission helicopter spotting something and radioing the spot down to ground searchers.

"We have found him alive and hopefully he will be OK. He is probably dehydrated when I looked at him," Dobson said. "... They saw what appeared to be something and they said 'We found something' and our ground people went that way and one of our investigators found him."

Peyton and his sister were visiting his grandmother on Saturday at a residence in the 6800 block of Florida 121 South in Macclenny when the woman realized the boy was missing about noon, Dobson said. The boy’s mother lives in Gainesville, and the boy was in Macclenny for a short visit.

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Found alive! 

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Brittany Blodgett - Payton's Mom - October 27, 2014

"I took the gloves off because I knew I wasn't going to need them," she said. "Thank you Jesus, thank you everybody in Baker County, thank you for your prayers, thank you, thank you, thank you."

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/local/2014/10/27/missing-child-found-safe/18014641/

 

Mother recalls scary hours of her autistic son's disappearance
October 28, 2014

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Eight-year-old, Peyton Blodgett, who lives with autism, is listed in critical condition Monday night after spending 49 hours alone in the woods.

Blodgett was found conscious Monday afternoon.

The Baker County Sheriff's Office estimates he found less than a half-mile from his grandmother's house, where he disappeared from Saturday afternoon.

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Video at the link

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Boy 'wouldn't have made it another cold night'
Published On: Oct 28 2014 02:57:11 PM EDT   Updated On: Oct 28 2014 07:14:17 PM EDT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - 
An 8-year-old boy with autism who was missing for more than two days is making a speedy recovery at Wolfson Children's Hospital, his parents said Tuesday.
 
Peyton's parents said the toxins in their son's bloodstream have decreased every time the doctors check his kidneys. They said he won't need a kidney replacement or dialysis, and his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious.

"At 4:30 this morning, he asked me, 'Where's Bo?' That's our dog. So that tells me that his mind is getting away from being in shock and pain, so now he's recovering," Brittany Blodgett said.
 
She expects Peyton to remain in the hospital for the next several days and anticipates he'll be released by Monday.