9 years since boy in foster care went missing in Brooklyn

Monday, January 21, 2019
EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Tuesday marks nine years since a young boy in foster care in Brooklyn vanished without a trace.

Seven-year-old Patrick Alford disappeared in 2010 while helping his foster mother take out the garbage at the Spring Creek Towers apartment complex in East New York.
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Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that Patrick may still be alive.

Last week, the NYPD re-released a computer-generated age-progressed photo of what he may have looked like in 2015.


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Police will be handing out flyers Tuesday near the site of Patrick's disappearance in the hopes of turning up new clues.

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