All of it started on December 8, when a automotive carrying the lacking kid’s father Steven Collins, the boy’s mom Wendy Bailey, and 2-year-old sister RyLeigh crashed right into a tree in Fayette County. Collins and his daughter had been killed, whereas Bailey was critically injured.

Per investigators, through an incident report seen by WBRC, the daddy was “driving aggressively at an excessive charge of velocity,” 92 MPH, when he misplaced management of the car, spun out and careened into the tree. Troopers famous the highway was moist, whereas neither father or mother was sporting a seatbelt and the kid reportedly wasn’t in a automotive seat; additionally they mentioned the truck was being “operated aggressively” earlier than the crash.

Collins was ejected from the truck and pronounced useless on the hospital. His daughter sustained deadly accidents through the crash, whereas Bailey was additionally “barely ejected” and airlifted to the hospital for remedy.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it discovered on December 9 that the couple within the crash “had one other baby,” 1-year-old Kahleb Rowan Collins, who wasn’t within the automotive with the remainder of them. He was reported lacking that day and a search started.

On Monday, the Alabama Legislation Enforcement Company introduced that Kahleb was final seen on September 4 — which means he is truly been lacking for greater than three months. An Emergency Lacking Baby Alert has since been issued for the boy, who stays unaccounted for.

On December 11, Kahleb’s grandfather John Elton Bailey — who was reportedly dwelling along with his daughter’s household — was arrested and charged with failing to report a lacking baby. He is nonetheless behind bars on the Fayette County Jail.

Neighbors additionally advised the native ABC affiliate that Steven advised them their son “had gone to dwell with kin as a result of he was sick.” Members of the family, in the meantime, mentioned they had been advised the boy had well being points.

After which there’s this: On November 6, after authorities say the kid was final seen, Steven shared a publish about his son to Fb.

“Our son will not be doing nicely. He isn’t rising and has main again points,” he wrote on the time. “His organs are rising however not his physique. He has to have surgical procedure in some unspecified time in the future. Hold him in your prayers. Been tough and simply appears going to be an extended tough powerful highway forward of us.”