NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The 3-year-old Bronx boy who was taken by a 13-year-old girl, were found very early Monday morning in Brooklyn. While the details are still a little sketchy, authorities report that the little boy was apparently unharmed, and was being checked out at a hospital in the Bronx.
The teenager was being held for questioning, police said.
Initial exams indicated that the boy, who had been taken from his father's tattoo parlor two days earlier, was unharmed.
Two witnesses spotted the pair on a street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn and called police, who picked them up at around 2 a.m. Monday, police said. Local news outlets had been broadcasting photographs of the children.
Police had been looking for the teen, who often hung out at Zeus Tattoos, the popular Bronx tattoo parlor and hair salon co-owned by the boy's father. Employees said she lured little Brandon Aponte outside on Saturday even though his father had made clear he didn't want her to take him.
The boy's father, Luis Aponte, called police. Two weeks earlier the teenager, who often played with the boy, had taken him to a nearby candy store with his father's permission and had returned promptly, Zeus Tattoos employees said.
Zeus Aponte, the boy's uncle, said he once overheard the teen tell the boy, "I'm your mommy.''
The 13-year-old had been a straight-A middle school student but had become moody and rebellious after she started seeing an older man, said a cousin, 17-year-old Eli Prado. She stopped coming home and dropped out of school, he said.
The boy's family had offered a $10,000 reward and pleaded in front of television cameras for the girl to bring him back.
"She's a little girl who doesn't know what she's doing,'' said Zeus Aponte. "She's probably scared, and she's making mistakes behind mistakes.''
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