Authorities announced Sunday that they have found the two young brothers and their birth mom after the trio disappeared from the kids’ South Los Angeles foster home on Thursday.
“The children have been located and will soon be reunited with their foster parents,” the LAPD said in a short release. “Children are in good health.”
The California Highway Patrol confirmed the children and their biological mother, 30-year-old Jackline Hernandez-Torres, were found by announcing that the AMBER Alert was deactivated.
Authorities did not immediately release where the boys or Hernandez-Torres were found. No further details were available.
The alert was issued after the brothers left their foster home near South Virgil Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Investigators believed Hernandez-Torres may have taken them toward the area of West 52nd Street in South Los Angeles.
The boys’ foster parents told KTLA they heard the boys opening the door around 1:30 a.m., but by the time the parents ran outside, the kids had taken off.
The brothers’ guardians were concerned that the children were in search of their birth parents, who purportedly reside in the 1500 block of W. 52nd Street. The location is about 7 miles from their own home, a distance that the boys were believed to have traversed on foot.
Later, two kids and an adult woman, believed to be Hernandez-Torres, were seen outside the Westlake home, but then left the property and had not been seen since.
The LAPD later stated that Hernandez-Torres was believed to have abducted the boys from Virgil Avenue and intended to bring them to the area of the 1500 block of W. 52nd Street. The California Highway Patrol issued an AMBER alert at 10:22 a.m. Thursday for a child abduction.
No arrests have been reported as of 2 p.m. Sunday.
Luis Zuniga contributed to this report.
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