Brooklyn's Patrick Alford, Boy Missing For 7 Years, Would Look Like This Today

EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN — On the seventh anniversary of when then-7-year-old Patrick Alford went missing, the NYPD released a new, age-enhanced photo of Alford, who would now be 14. Alford, described by cops as a black Hispanic boy with a scar on his left eyebrow, was last seen on Jan. 22, 2010 at 9 p.m. leaving the lobby of his home in Spring Creek Development at 130 Vandalia Ave.

There have been no arrests related to Alford's mysterious disappearance, and the investigation is ongoing, an NYPD spokesperson told Patch on Tuesday.

Alford was in foster care through the Administration for Children's Services in East New York's Spring Creek Development when he went missing, his father told PIX 11. Alford's foster mother, Librada Moran, was supervising him when he went missing. Moran told cops she turned her head while taking out the trash, and when she looked back, the young boy was gone.

The boy's birth mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, told PIX 11 she had been "overwhelmed" when the Administration for Children's Services visited her in 2009 in Staten Island and took Patrick and his younger sister, Jayleen, into foster care. Rodriguez told PIX 11 in 2014 that the 7-year-old was distraught under Moran's supervision, where he was for just three weeks before disappearing.

"He was crying, acting out, throwing a chair. He was like 'No!!'–I want to come home, Mommy! I want to be with you, I want to be with you," she said.

The young boy's father, Patrick Alford, Sr., was left paralyzed in his left side in 2012 after he was shot several times in the head by a group of men in an attack in his home in East New York. Alford, Sr. told PIX 11 that the men demanded reward money related to his son's disappearance that they believed to be in his possession.

The NYPD is offering a $10,000 reward for information about Alford's disappearance. Crime Stoppers is also offering a $2,000 reward. Anyone with information in regards to this case is asked to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

Photo via NYPD