I have to ask myself, has America forgotten about little 6 year old Adji that disappeared on January 10th, 2009 while at his grandmother’s home for the day while his mother was working. His grandmother lives in Farm Workers Village in Immokalee, Florida.
Around 5:15 that afternoon Adji went outside to play with some of his friends and before they knew it they realized Adji had disappeared with no witnesses that could help in finding the little boy. Adji also goes by the nickname “Ji Ji†which is pronounced as Gee Gee.
Search crews searched the area and there was a billboard put up with Adji’s picture on it. There were posters put up downtown in Immokalee asking anyone for information on the whereabouts of this child.
Adji was last seen wearing a blue shirt with thin yellow stripes, blue shorts with pink flamingos going down the sides and grey and black sneakers. Adji is also developmentally disabled that functions on a level of a 2 year old and he is only able to speak about five words of English and he can understand Creole but can’t speak it. He does recognize his name when it is called out though.
Adji is described as being a black male that is 3 ft tall and weighs 45 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes.
Police say if Adji is spotted he might run and try to hide from someone so if anyone spots him please call the police. Adji will turn 7 years old on October 15th.
We don’t hear anything about little Adji in the news anymore and we have received requests to please put his name back out there so that hopefully he can be found as well. Wouldn’t it be a great birthday present for him to be returned home after all this time to his family?
Adji has not been mentioned in the news for a while now. This little boy is out there somewhere. I don’t know where. I don’t know if he is even alive but one way or another, this child deserves to be found. He is an innocent little boy that needs our help in finding him so PLEASE anyone out there that has any information I ask you to call the police. You can also call this numbers that I found online: Collier County Sheriff’s Office (Florida) 1-239-793-9300 or National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Let’s keep Adji Desir’s name in the news so hopefully someone somewhere will recognize him and he can be returned home. Please say a prayer for Adji and his family. God bless you Adji where ever you are.
Jan Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI have an email alert set for updates on this missing boy, but this is the first alert Ive gotten in months. I dont understand the lack of interest in the media for this little boy. Is it because he is a male? I see other missing child cases on tv every night, its sad when any child is missing, but the media focus seems to be on white females. I just think we need to focus on ALL the children that are missing.
Thank you Jan for bringing Adji’s story into the limelight once again. His is a sad story indeed, made even sadder by being forgotten by the media.
Jan! I have been wondering about this little boy for months! I have a list next to my computer of missing children that I google on a weekly basis. He is on the top of my list. You are the first person to even mention him in months. Its sad that so may children go missing that we just can’t keep up. Its sadder still that there isn’t enough juicy gossip with this story to keep it in the news. Or as Eileen states, he isn’t a white female.
BNN never lets me down! Thanks for your tireless efforts of trying to keep up. We know its not easy. I think this little story shows just how far you guys really go and sacrifice out of your own life just to spread to word to help others.
Good Karma always comes back around! I wish you and your family and Adji’s the best.
THANK YOU!!!!
Good for you Jan! None of the other web newsites seem to have any information on him which isn’t their fault if nothing new has been disovered, but at least we need to keep his face out there and let people know he is still missing.
Jan & Simon, thank you so kindly for bringing Adji Desir being missing to the forefront of the news again! I have worked with kids who have simular issues and for the life of me cannot figure out where Child Protective Services is doing to find him or other human service agencies who know Adji is not able to speak well or tell anyone who he is never mind how to get home! Angel blessings Sass
Cheers for bringing sweet Adji’s name back out there!
Thank you. I was thinking about Adji just a few days ago but couldn’t remember his name! Why is nobody demanding this case be worked as hard as Caylee’s and Haleigh’s?
This is so sad, what a sweet face one you don’t forget! I think about Adji, i have never forgotten his face!!!!Thanks Jan and simmon for doing all you can for all the children! When i was a child you never heard of such things! The laws need to be changed!!! And people need to stand by them, our children are being lost everyday!!!!
As much as we don’t want to play the race and gender card. It is what it is. My heart bleeds for these babies. People are just not paying attention to these babies and the evil people among us.Why can’t we protect our children from these horrible people?
great article jan. i am very impressed with jan and simon’s articles and radio shows.
normaly i find it to heartbreaking to follow missing people stories. i always feel helpless. what can the average person do to help. i keep hoping some very smart person invents a program we all can run on our computers. maybe it can run at the bottom or top with scrolling faces. or maybe a background or pop up of new pictures everyday to see of missing people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tltX9-Vykco
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tltX9-Vykco
wow it looks like law enforcement did everything they could and can to find adji.
i guess it comes down to finding a way for the media to keep adji’s and other children’s faces in the news.
on the find adji site i see some have asked us to write to media outlets and shows to ask for adji to be featured. i will do that.
http://www.findadji.com/
i would also like to ask them to find a way to regularly feature missing children. i just am not sure how to ask this in an effective way. they need to believe they can do this.
in case anyone missed the
Card from Adji’s classmates at Village Oaks Elementary
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“adji is so cool!” here is the link
http://findadji.com/index.php/topic,90.0.html
i agree jan. if only adji could be home for his birthday. adji and his family are in my heart. i pray he is found very soon
It seems Adji’s playmates must have noticed something or someone in the area when Adji disappeared. If these children could be questioned again, they might remember details they did not recall on earlier questioning. It also seems doctors’ offices, schools, and day care centers should be on the lookout for anyone bringing in a child who fits Adji’s description.
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