9-Year Old Autistic Boy Ran Away from Home

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A 9-year-old boy in Tennessee who had been missing for three days after running into the woods following an argument with his foster parents was found safe and wearing no jacket or shoes by a creek bed Tuesday afternoon, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations.

Jordan Gorman was found by rescuers around 3 p.m. huddled beneath a makeshift shelter made out of a blue tarp about three-quarters of a mile from his foster home near Ashland City, about 23 miles west of Nashville. The child told investigators he found the tarp in the woods and built the shelter himself.

Source: Missing Tennessee boy, 9, found alive after spending 3 days in makeshift shelter in woods

I wonder what the argument was about?

It's good that he survived and even was able to build a shelter. I cannot even imagine what parents have gone through

I can relate to the boy. I’d prefer that shelter to a foster home. Many foster homes are not good places for children.

Since this is a foster home and a foster child, this could have just been a ordinary argument most kids would have at home with their mom or dad or any authority figure. Foster kids just react abnormally to a normal situation because of trauma and because they came from a dysfunctional home.

My heart goes out to the child ......

I want to give that child some fat, little Om Nom hugs.

I hear about this happening in my area quite a bit. A friend if mine told me how it often results in calling in everyone from the k9 units to have th hounds track the person to helicopter pilots to conduct a search and also mentioned attempts to get the parents to use a GPS monitor.

I hear about this happening in my area quite a bit. A friend if mine told me how it often results in calling in everyone from the k9 units to have th hounds track the person to helicopter pilots to conduct a search and also mentioned attempts to get the parents to use a GPS monitor.