Girl's glance at poster leads police to missing boy

Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2002

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) -- A 4-year-old boy who disappeared in November was reunited with his mother after a second-grade girl recognized him from a poster at a Wal-Mart almost 500 miles from his home.

"Abrim's up here," 8-year-old Keisha Riegert said when she saw the boy her mother had been babysitting at their home for two weeks.

Police arrested Abrim Dickey's father, Ronald Steven Dickey, on Feb. 4 on charges of kidnapping. He was freed on bail.

He and Tina Dickey were divorced nearly a year ago. Though he didn't have visitation rights, Tara Dickey let him see the boy. During one of those visits, the pair disappeared.

Authorities said he took the child 480 miles away to Cape Girardeau.



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