Kidnapped as a month-old infant, boy gets reunited with parents after eight years

Aaron was just a month-old baby when a woman kidnapped him in Chennai on November 29, 2014. The police couldn’t trace him out and the child grew with his kidnapper until she got arrested in a murder case in 2017. Thereafter, he was raised in a child care home and as luck would have it, he has been reunited with his parents now at the age of eight.

Aaron was just a month-old baby when a woman kidnapped him in Chennai on November 29, 2014. The police couldn’t trace him and the child grew with his kidnapper until she got arrested in a murder case in 2017. Thereafter, he was raised in a child care home and as luck would have it, he has been reunited with his parents now at the age of eight.

A. John Jabaraj, 35, a goods vehicle driver from Ayanavaram in Chennai, says, he got married to J. Tamilarasi at the Besant Nagar Annai Velankanni Shrine in 2013 and Aaron was their first child born on October 28, 2014. They had taken the month-old baby for vaccination to a government hospital where the kidnapper S. Devi got acquainted to them.

Since the couple was residing in Tirumullaivoyal, the kidnapper woman visited their house in the guise of seeking help in locating a house on rent near their residence. And when Mr. Jabaraj had gone out for work and his wife had been to a nearby teashop, the woman took away the baby from their house and went absconding.

The Tirumullaivoyal police closed the ‘baby missing case’ on October 10, 2015 since they were unable to trace the child even after a year despite best efforts. The couple too lost all hopes of finding him and gave birth to their second son on December 15, 2015 and a baby girl on January 25, 2018.

“However, deep inside my heart, I believed in God’s providence. I finally spotted the kidnapper woman at Anna Nagar in Chennai on August 5, 2022 when I had gone there on work. I followed her, shot a video and called the cops by dialling 100 but she escaped by the time the police could reach the spot,” he says.

The desperate father rushed to the Tirumullaivoyal police who reopened the 2014 baby missing case. He also petitioned the Chief Minister’s grievance redressal cell which gave the much needed impetus to the case. The police accelerated the hunt using available clues and arrested the woman on February 2, 2023.

An inquiry with her revealed that she had handed over the child to the Villivakkam police in Chennai in 2017 when she got arrested in a murder case. Then, she did not reveal that he was kidnapped by her and therefore, the police had admitted the child in Bala Mandir Kamaraj Trust at T. Nagar in Chennai.