It was the reunion a Bradford family had desperately been hoping for.
Three-year-old Jessie Chmiel disappeared from the back of his family's Bradford farm around 7:15pm Thursday. The boy spent the night lost in a field of corn well over six feet high. He was found nearly 12 hours later on a path.
Police launched a massive effort to find the youngster, including the use of a Durham Regional Police helicopter. About 50 officers conducted a grid search of 40-acres of field behind the family's home with the help of three police dogs.
Officers on ATVs found the boy lying on a pathway along the edge of the cornfield, semi-conscious, around 6am Friday and he was reunited with his parents shortly after. He was loaded into an ambulance, after receiving some warm embraces from his mom and dad, and taken to a local hospital for a check-over.
"It was a cold night, and damp," Staff Sgt. Lisa Hunt of South Simcoe
Police said. "He just had a T-shirt and shorts on so, he did very well.
He was a brave young man, very brave."
The first thing the tot said to the officers who found him was: "Where's Dad?"
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