Missing 4-Year-Old Reunited With His Grandmother

HOUSTON, TX — Jeremiah Green was napping in his grandmother's apartment in southeast Houston on Tuesday afternoon, and all was normal. What happened next was not.

Police officials say the youth's mother unlawfully took the boy from the grandmother's home — the grandmother is his guardian — and fled to her Galena Park home, where Jeremiah was found safe.

Danielle Steucy, Jeremiah's grandmother, said that while the boy was napping she went downstairs to talk to a neighbor, and when she returned the boy was gone. Steucy's 19-year-old daughter told her that Jeremiah's mother had taken the boy.

Steucy reported Jeremiah missing around 3:30 p.m.yesterday.

"Please return my grandson to me. He’s the only grandson I have and he is my world," Steucy pleaded to the police, as reported by KHOU. "Can y’all please somebody help me and return my grandson to me."

Jeremiah and Steucy were reunited on Tuesday evening.

"I asked him and said, 'Jeremiah did you miss Granny?' He said, 'yes.' I said you glad you're home, and he said 'yes,'" Stuecy recounted. "So that is enough for me. The look on my face says it all. I thank you guys. I know there are kids that come up missing and are never found."

Police officials declined to arrest Jeremiah's mother, saying that the case is the jurisdiction of Child Protective Services.

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