2 year old Missing boy found ALIVE - KEVIN BROWN....

mckayleesmom wrote: This was the little boy that went missing from his parents front yard. Him and his 4 year old brother were playing and the older one got bit by something so the mom took him inside to take care of his boo boo and came back and her other son was missing.....What a happy ending....that poor baby wandered so far. He was missing for almost a week.....

Missing boy found aliveBy Dan X. McGraw
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
ALVARADO -- Two-year-old Kevin Brown, who had been missing since Thursday evening, was found about a mile from his home in south Alvarado on Sunday with a few "chigger bites, fire ant bites and scratches," but he is alive, Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford said. "There is no way he should have been alive," he said.

Kevin's parents, Karla and Almond Brown were excited and relieved to have their son back.

"This is happiest day of my life," Karla Brown said as she peered at her sleeping son. "Our life has new meaning now."

Her husband, Almond, added that the couple had begun to lose hope "because it was taking so long," but they said they now know how fast a child can disappear.

"It can happen in a minute," he said.

Kevin, described as a smiling, happy-go-lucky child, disappeared Thursday evening after playing with his 4-year-old brother Anthony outside their parents' rural mobile home between Alvarado and Cleburne.

Johnson County Sheriff investigators were beginning to suspect the boy had been abducted after officers and volunteers were unable to locate him after an extensive search of the area.

But during a search by air Sunday, officers in a Department of Public Safety helicopter spotted Kevin shortly after 5 p.m. as they made a final pass over the area, about a mile from the boy's home.

When they first saw the boy, he was face down near the stock pond. But as the two-man crew searched for a landing area, they saw the Kevin move his head.

"That was a good sign when we saw that," said Clay Lacey, a Garland police officer who spotted the boy. "It’s a good ending to this story."

Lt. John Brannon, the DPS pilot who spent his day off helping with the search, had decided to make one more pass over the area.

"This is just the way its all suppose to work," he said. "I asked the good Lord to help me find this boy and he did."

When asked why he chose to make a final pass over the area, Brannon said, "They say I'm stubborn, so I suppose that’s why."

mom2my2cuties replied: What a great story! Glad he was found!

C&K*s Mommie replied: heartwarming to know there was a happy ending. I am glad that the pilot had a stubborn personality that helped bring the little boy home safe.

My2Beauties replied: IT's about time we had some good news in regards to a missing child story. Was he in the woods or something, does anyone know? It didn't say, I'm just wondering how no one else could notice a child wandering around by themselves unless he was in an isolated location, such as woods or something.

boyohboyohboy replied: thank God for this little boy. I dont think a day has gone by that i have not wanted the same results for that duckett boy.

C&K*s Mommie replied: In answer to your question, LeaAnn- I am thinking since it was a rural area, and no one noticed a child only a mile away- that it must have been fairly woodsy. And for him to be only a mile away but all of the searches up to that point turned up nothing, it was likely woodsy or dense so that previous aerial searches ended in disappointment.

holley79 replied: That is a very ahppy ending.

ashtonsmama replied: Wow. What an amazing story! TFS!

I hope little Trenton Duckett has the same ending...

MoonMama replied: I'm so happy this one had a happy ending I just wish more did. I'm so glad it had a good ending and he's safe again with mom and dad.

3xsthefun replied: That is a very happy ending! Glad that they found him!

Crystalina replied:
Oh I know. I hope they find him alive. I think about that boy every single day.

BAC'sMom replied: Glad they found him safe and sound!