MOBILE, Ala. ( WKRG ) — Sabrina Paige-Hackett is extremely thankful that her 5-year-old son, Julian, was returned safely to her home after he wandered off in the street earlier this month.
Paige-Hackett said her son was at his grandmother’s house, and her world stopped once she got a frightening phone call learning that he went missing.
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“I was at home; I was actually in the middle of cooking,” Paige-Hackett said. “And my mom called me. She told me that they can’t find Julian, and her front door was wide open. So my heart stopped. I just remember I just remember kept saying, ‘Oh, my God. Oh, my God.’ I ran up the house. I told my husband to come on.’”
Her son, Julian, is nonverbal and has autism. Paige-Hackett said his condition makes him wander off, but this was the first time he made it out of the house.
“He was trying to walk out of my mom’s subdivision and onto a busy highway,” she explained. “And she said that the truck in front of her barely missed him, and she said when she saw that, she looked around and found nobody was out there and he was walking around with no shoes, of course, he was at my mom’s house comfortable. And she said she just picked them up, put them in her car, went home, and called the police.”