A barefoot boy believed to be about 5 years old was found unsupervised in the parking lot of a Far Rockaway laundromat early Tuesday morning, police said.
A photo of the child, described as in good physical health but nonverbal, was released to the media in the hopes someone knows who he is and where his family is located.
“He don’t say nothing,” said Lidia Rojas, a worker at Laundry City Express who saw the boy when she showed up at 5:20 a.m. to open the business. “But he listened to me. I said, ‘Come on, poppa,’ and he came inside with me.”
Rojas, the mother of three grown children, said she was startled when she approached the laundry, on Seagirt Blvd. near Beach 26th St., and saw the boy walking in the parking lot, wearing beige shorts and a white T-shirt, but with no shoes or s