04-04-2011, 12:49 PM
TAMPABAY.com — Sasha Earnest got her two children ready for day care Monday morning, then stepped into the shower herself, leaving a door cracked so she knew when her infant daughter cried.
From bathroom, she called out to her son, Jaiden Henry, 3, to find the pacifier.
"J.J., put the binky in the baby's mouth," the mother said, according to a relative.
It worked once. But the next time, the baby kept crying. Jaiden didn't answer. When the mother went looking, the front door was ajar and her little boy was gone.
The apartment at 6904 St. Johns River Drive is just yards from the Hillsborough River in northeast Tampa. There's a red fence with gaps large enough to fit an adult.
Grandmother Angela Allen said the mother ran to river, then knocked on a neighbor's door to call 911.
Deputies knocked on the doors of other apartments at the Landings complex, and canine and aerial units also searched for the boy but couldn't find him.
"I prayed that I would almost rather for somebody to have my grandson than for him to be in the water," the grandmother said.
The boy was last seen wearing an orange shirt, light blue pants and socks. He wears a stud earring in his right ear and has short hair, deputies said.
Anyone with information about Jaiden is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at (813)247-8200.
An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect age for the boy and an incorrect date of disappearance.
jesus christ!! there's a baby missing and they can't get it right??
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From bathroom, she called out to her son, Jaiden Henry, 3, to find the pacifier.
"J.J., put the binky in the baby's mouth," the mother said, according to a relative.
It worked once. But the next time, the baby kept crying. Jaiden didn't answer. When the mother went looking, the front door was ajar and her little boy was gone.
The apartment at 6904 St. Johns River Drive is just yards from the Hillsborough River in northeast Tampa. There's a red fence with gaps large enough to fit an adult.
Grandmother Angela Allen said the mother ran to river, then knocked on a neighbor's door to call 911.
Deputies knocked on the doors of other apartments at the Landings complex, and canine and aerial units also searched for the boy but couldn't find him.
"I prayed that I would almost rather for somebody to have my grandson than for him to be in the water," the grandmother said.
The boy was last seen wearing an orange shirt, light blue pants and socks. He wears a stud earring in his right ear and has short hair, deputies said.
Anyone with information about Jaiden is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at (813)247-8200.
An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect age for the boy and an incorrect date of disappearance.
jesus christ!! there's a baby missing and they can't get it right??