In a miraculous turn of events, a boy who was abducted from a church in 2012 has returned to the very same church a decade later.
The child, then just two years old, disappeared after his mother briefly entrusted him to a church member while she stepped outside to buy something. Upon her return, both the church member and her son were missing, prompting a desperate search that yielded no leads.
Fast forward to today, the now 12-year-old boy was unexpectedly dropped off at the church where he was originally taken.
A Nigerian man shared the shocking reunion on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), recounting how the mother had handed her son over to an unknown woman. "So, one woman gave someone her 2-year-old son in church to help her carry as she stepped outside to buy something in 2012.
She came back and couldn’t find the woman nor the son. Ten years later, the son returned today…after being dropped by someone in front of the same church,” he wrote.
The post has since gone viral, drawing widespread attention and evoking feelings of shock, relief, and amazement at the boy's safe return.
Local authorities are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding both the abduction and the boy's decade-long absence, seeking answers to this extraordinary case.