Some Good news: Dog keeps toddler safe

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ELGIN, SC (WIS) - A missing 2-year-old boy in Elgin was found Saturday morning after Kershaw County deputies say the family dog kept him warm and safe all night.

Sheriff Jim Matthews said 22-month-old Tyler Jacobson was reunited with his family after he was found across the street behind a neighbor's home when someone reported hearing crying in the area.

Tyler was reported missing around 8:00pm Friday from a residence on Ashley Creek Drive. Matthews said the boy's mother, 25-year-old Jacklyn Marie Jacobson, and her boyfriend Jose Gloria told investigators Tyler went to get some juice and didn't come back.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14369871

The father of the kid is in the army and deployed currently, I think the dad should get custody after this fiasco. However glad the kid came out of this okay.

I don't think that there is enough information in the story to jump to that conclusion. Sometimes young kids do figure out ways to reach the deadbolt and learn to work it, or figure out how to bypass other child resistant devices. Plus, the dad is getting deployed all over the place right now.

Unless they keep their juice across the street in someone else's backyard in a place easily-accessible to a toddler,
the mother's full of BS.

As I said the biological father should get custody.

As a parent, I know you watch your kid like a hawk, especially at that young an age. My five year old daughter is autistic, so I am not about to let her wander off on her own.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The story the mother gave does not add up as Bethie pointed out.

Incredibly bad parenting...usually the kitchen where juice is located at is located near the rear of the house..the fact they let a 22 month old go into a kitchen by herself to look for juice doesn't make sense...is the juice located at such a level the kid can reach it? what if the child got his hands on a knife or something dangerous? irresponsiblity gone amok. Their is a time to teach a kid how to do things on his/her own..at 22 months, you would let the child do that?? Does she have any more children? the reason I ask is because possibly she was changing a diaper or doing something with another kid and she took her eyes off him.

I don't think there's anything strange about a 2 year old getting his own juice. I don't even think there's anything strange about a 2 year old opening a door and wandering out. What I do think is strange is that nobody thought to look in the neighbor's yards. A chopper with infrared search, bloodhounds, and nobody does a door to door canvass of the very street he lives on? If my daughter went missing, the immediate neighborhood is the very first place I would look. How on earth did everybody miss him?

It actually does make sense. It's very normal for 2 year olds to go from room to room of their own houses. In my house, juice is located in the fridge. When my daughter was 2, she could get a juice box from the fridge pretty easily. She couldn't poke the straw into the hole reliably but some 2 year olds can. I don't think my home is so very unique in having the juice stored in the easily accessable fridge. My daughter was not able to get a knife because the knives were stored out of reach.

I'm not finding juice accessibility to be the odd part of the story. I'm finding the fact that nobody thought to look in the neighbor's yards an odd part of the story.

I remember when my brother was that age. He was like Houdini and he was a determined little bugger. For every escape route we blocked, he'd find half a dozen others. One time he was missing for hours. We searched all his usual destinations, neighbours gardens, the woods etc no sign. Mum was considering calling the village policeman out (again) when he walked into the kitchen covered in soot. Where had he been? Up the chimney looking for Santa.

This illustrates the saying: "The difference between comedy and tragedy is timing".