Missing boy found at children’s home in heart-warming story- PHOTOS
Geoffrey Gesaka’s desperate search for his missing six year-old son ended emotionally at a place he had least expected to find him.
His son, Moses Blessing, was found at a children’s home in Kahawa West, Nairobi after a five-week search that had seemed futile.
Baby Blessing was spotted at the children’s home by a neighbour who had visited the facility by chance -for a charity cause.
The neighbour, 18-year-old Benjamin, popularly known as Benja, had spotted Blessing among other children at the home.
Strangely, when he called the boy by his name, he just stared blankly at him and did not respond.
Benjamin left the children’s home without speaking to anyone about the brief incident, and rushed back to Ruiru to look for Blessing’s father.
“At the time when Benjamin came looking for me, he didn’t find me because I had gone to Ruai to put up posters of my son. But when I returned home, I was told that he was looking for me,” said Mr Gesaka.
“He asked me questions about my missing son and, after I provided him with a picture of the boy, he told me that he had seen him at a children’s home in Kahawa west,” the elated father narrated to Nairobi News.
Mr Gesaka together with Benjamin rushed to Kahawa West where he was able to verify that indeed the boy was his missing son.
A teacher at the home accompanied them to Kiamumbi police station where, after showing proof of paternity, father and son were reunited.
The police said the boy was found loitering. They had sent out a notification to other stations on the missing child.
But when no response was forthcoming, he was taken to the nearby children’s home.
As a matter of procedure, when a missing child is found, a police station is required to send out notifications to other police stations.
If no family comes out to claim the child, the police are then required to obtain a court order to place the child at a children’s home.
Moses Blessing is the last born in a family of six.
His is a story with a rare happy-ending among many that end tragically.
