"A family court judge has ordered the mom held at a hospital, where she is undergoing psychiatric testing and care, as cops continue to search for the boy. Weeks later, the mother still won't acknowledge her son's existence and at one point cited her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as the reason for her refusal to cooperate, a police source with knowledge of the case said."
"On Friday, cops released a computer-generated image of Jacob "to predict what the missing (child) would look like today." Cops were never able to locate a photo of Jacob and on Oct. 4 released a composite sketch of what the child looks like. "That's all we have at this time," a police spokesman said at the time. "What we have, we put out." ACS began investigating Jacob's disappearance after a tipster reached out through a state hotline with concern for the child's welfare, police sources told the Daily News."
An 11-year-old autistic boy named Jacob Pritchett is believed to have gone missing in mid-August, with authorities notified in late September. Neighbors reported seeing the child and building administrators possessed a birth certificate, but police found no evidence of a child during a search of the Brownsville apartment. The child's mother denied ever having a child, invoked her Fifth Amendment right at one point, and has been held for psychiatric evaluation at a hospital by court order. The NYPD released a computer-generated image and earlier a composite sketch because no photo was available, and ACS opened an investigation after a hotline tip.
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