Missing Autistic Child Found Safe, Babysitter in Custody: NYPD

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Police have found the 6-year-old autistic boy who disappeared with his babysitter in Bed-Stuy Saturday morning.

The boy was last seen outside 717 Madison St. in Bed-Stuy with his babysitter, Emmanuel Kolajo, who was being questioned by police Monday morning, said police.

The little boy was taken to a Woodhull Hospital for evaluation but is in good condition, said police. It was not immediately known where Devin Monroe was found or where he had been,

Monroe’s 38-year-old mother told police she last saw her little boy with Kolajo, 39, as pair drove away in her car, which she lent to Kolajo, around 6 a.m. Saturday.

The terrified mother reported her son missing when she tried to pick her son up from Kolajo later that day and found that the two of them were gone, said police.

Kolajo had not been charged as of Monday morning, police said.

Photos courtesy of the NYPD.