Adji Desir was 6 years old when he vanished from Immokalee, Florida, on January 10, 2009. He was last seen around 5:15 p.m. playing outside his grandmother’s home in Farm Workers Village after his mother left him there for work. His grandmother searched for about two hours before contacting authorities.

Adji was developmentally disabled and non-verbal, functioning at the level of a two-year-old and able to communicate only by nodding or shaking his head. A large-scale search involving hundreds of law enforcement personnel failed to find him. Investigators considered that he might have wandered off or been abducted; early leads suggesting he had been taken to Haiti, where his biological father lived, were not substantiated.

The disappearance has received national attention and remains unsolved. Anyone with information about Adji’s whereabouts or who saw him that evening is asked to come forward.