Authorities are desperately searching for two adorable siblings who were reportedly abducted by their parents during a supervised visit in California, with social workers fearing this could be a family living off the grid.
Wyman, four, and Willow Bryant, two, disappeared on Aug. 14 after their parents Tiffany Bryant, 39, and David James, 53, allegedly took them on a supervised visit from the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, according to ABC7.
They are said to have smuggled the children out through the emergency exit, leaving their 15-month-old child behind.
The three children had been living with a foster family since last year, after the 15-month-old baby tested positive for drug use at birth.
Social workers now worry that the family may be living in remote areas because they are ‘nomadic’.
Wyman, four (right), and Willow Bryant, two (left), disappeared on August 14 after their parents Tiffany Bryant, 39, and David James, 53, allegedly stole them during a supervised visit from the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services.
Tiffany (left) and David (right) allegedly pushed the children out the emergency exit, leaving their 15-month-old child behind. The three children have been living with a foster family since last year after the 15-month-old tested positive for drugs at birth
“These are the type of people who can live off the grid, if that makes sense,” Nina Glass, the director of Search & Rescue San Antonio, told ABC 7.
‘They love being in the middle of nowhere.
“They live out of their car. They don’t really have an address.”
The California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert for the two children last week on behalf of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office.
According to police, they are believed to be driving a “brown Buick Enclave SUV with no front license plates and blue paper license plates on the back.” Police.
“There are concerns for their welfare,” the sheriff said.
According to police, they were traveling in a “tan Buick Enclave SUV with no front plates and blue paper rear plates.” Glass claimed the parents had previously abducted their children and that it took two months to find them.
Glass claims the parents have abducted their children before, with the first incident occurring last summer after their third child was born.
It took two months to find the missing children, after which the parents were granted visitation rights, ABC 7 reported.
Glass encourages the entire country to pay attention to its youth.
“This is not the kind of search where you can say, ‘We’re going to go to this location and we’re going to search,'” she told the newspaper.
“This is more of a national search, where everyone has to keep an eye out for these people.”