A woman in eastern Ontario is breathing a sigh of relief this week after police found her son hiding in an abandoned building 16 days after he vanished in the night.
But Jenny Tozer’s agonizing wait to be reunited with her son Logan now has her joining the call for a new type of phone alert — one that would flag vulnerable people who have gone missing to residents living in that region.
Had that option been in place, Tozer says, Logan probably would have been returned much sooner to their farm on the outskirts of Havelock, Ont., a small community about 40 kilometres east of Peterborough.
“I wouldn’t have [had] to worry,” the mother of nine homeschooled children said of the past two weeks.
Known to wander
This wasn’t the first time Logan went off by himself.
The 18-year-old is into adventure books like the Hardy Boys and enjoys exploring empty buildings and woods where he finds rocks, animal skulls and other trinkets, Tozer said.
He usually comes back after a day or so, which is what made his recent disappearance from Oct. 13 to Oct. 30 so scary, she said.
After saying good night and going to sleep on Oct. 13, Logan wasn’t in his bed the next morning, leaving his siblings “freaking out.”
