Calcasieu, La. (WDNews) – A 1-year-old baby that survived two days and two nights crawling alongside a Louisiana Interstate during harsh weather has been rescued by police.
A trucker spotted him crawling along the roadway not far from where his 4-year-old brother was found dead a day earlier.
Reginald Walton, a driver for DHL Supply Chain, spotted the infant near a section of Interstate 10 in Calcasieu parish, Louisiana.
The baby is said to be in good health besides a few bug bites.
The boys’ mother, Aaliyah Jack, 25, was arrested on Tuesday in Meridian, Mississippi, almost 350 miles from where the children were found, authorities said.
“We look at this 1-year-old as our miracle baby because he was still alive,” Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Gary “Stitch” Guillory told reporters at a news conference in Lake Charles, about 200 miles west of New Orleans.
The 4-year-old’s body was found in a lake behind a welcome center on Interstate 10 on Monday, not far from the Texas border.
Police had planned to search the lake for the 1-year-old’s body as well, before being spotted by the trucker.
A law enforcement alert was put out for Jack on Monday night, and a judge in Louisiana issued a warrant for her arrest. She was arrested in Meridian, Miss., on charges of failure to report a missing child.
“She was located in Mississippi, without the 1-year-old, by the Meridian Police Department and taken into custody,” the Calcasieu Sheriff’s Office said.
She will be extradited to Louisiana and held under a $300,000 bond, Guillory said.
It is unclear why the children were not with their mother as of yet and the investigation is ongoing.
