The 13-year-old boy and his mother have reunited. The boy’s father is among five people arrested and charged with false imprisonment, child cruelty and obstruction.
The boy rescued by Georgia police last week from behind a false wall says he managed to engineer his own escape by using a smartphone.
Gregory Jean Jr told reporters he had been given a cellphone with no signal from his father to stay in touch with friends, but he instead used it to download the Magic Jack app to make an online call to his biological mother, Lisa Smith.
He says his mother had not known his location since he was allegedly abducted by his father, Gregory Jean Sr., and step-mother, Samantha Davis, after he visited them in 2010.
"She never knew my address. She never knew," Gregory Jean Jr. told WESH.
Smith has not explained why she reported her son missing to child services, but not to police.
Jean Sr. and Davis were both denied bail Monday.
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