Asperger’s Syndrome Runaway Spends 11 Days Hiding in NYC Subways
With all the survelliance technology, the authorities couldn’t find this kid? KIRK SEMPLE writes in the NY Times:
Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one.
Francisco Hernandez’s mother, Marisela García, displaying a poster seeking help.
After getting in trouble in class in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and fearing another scolding at home, he had sought refuge in the subway system. He removed the battery from his cellphone. “I didn’t want anyone to scream at me,” he said.
All told, Francisco disappeared for 11 days last month — a stretch he…
