NYC Search for Avonte Oquendo (missing 14yr autistic boy)

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/search-missing-autistic-boy-hits-home-mta-worker-article-1.1484475

You cannot commute anywhere in NYC without seeing a photo of Avonte Oquendo. He's a 14-year old, non-speaking autistic boy who disappeared from his school. "MISSING" posters are plastered on every street and in every subway station. Live announcements are being made on subway cars. He's all over the news.

While I applaud these extended efforts to find him, I do wonder why he is getting all this attention. I hope I am not misunderstood, I am pleased by these actions, but I am still curious how it became possible that the MTA agreed to conduct live announcements asking for the public's help to find him? And how in the world did all those MISSING posters get plastered EVERYWHERE so fast? Literally, I was in SoHo, Washington Heights, Midtown West, Upper East Side, Brooklyn, and Astoria in the past 2 days, and in every neighborhood I saw flyers taped to subway platform columns and on streetposts. It truly is an amazing effort to find him.

I pray for him to be found safe and unharmed.

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It's true- I see so many policemen everywhere I go now. Riding in the subway cars, lining the streets, etc.

Very impressive, I hope they find him well.

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The situation is truly terrifying and heart wrenching and I will continue volunteering to search for him and pray for him to be found alive and safe. Aside from the train connection, I'm sure liability is the reason this awful event is now getting as much attention as it is (and I, for one, don’t believe it’s gotten nearly enough attention or coverage, or that the attention and coverage started early enough). Someone (really a series of someones) let a 14 year old non-verbal child leave a NYC public school, unattended. There had to have been a total breakdown in every policy and procedure in effect to prevent such things. No surprise at all that City’s resources are being used as they are.

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