A woman pleaded for the return of her 2-year-old son Sunday morning after the SUV he was sleeping in was stolen while she unloaded groceries at a Sunnyvale motel.
“If this was your child, you’d hope to God everyone would stop what they are doing and help,” Melissa Jardine said. “Just act like it’s your child.”
An Amber Alert was issued after a brown 2008 Buick Enclave was stolen about 3:51 a.m. from the 500 block of North Mathilda Avenue in Sunnyvale. A toddler, Jacob Jardine, was in the vehicle when it was taken, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.
The vehicle had a “Baby On Board” sticker on it, as well as unknown paper plates. Its left headlight and taillight were out, and it had a spare tire on one of its wheels.
The boy is 3 feet tall and 25 pounds, and has red curly hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt with orange, blue and teal lettering on it when he was taken.
Jardine said her son was sleeping in the vehicle and she was unloading groceries at the Travel Inn off Mathilda Avenue when the SUV was taken.
She had just put her second load of groceries inside when she heard tires screeching outside.
“Before I even got out of my room, I heard a car squeal, and as I came out here, he was gone, the car was gone, everybody was gone,” Jardine said.
She said she couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t return her son.
“Why don’t you just pull over?” Jardine asked. “Why wouldn’t you stop? Why would you want any part in child abduction?”
The California Highway Patrol said the vehicle was stolen by an unknown person. No other details of the incident were released.
The highway patrol is asking that anyone who sees the boy or the vehicle call 911.
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