ST. LOUIS - The mother of a missing disabled boy tearfully prayed for his return, four days after the 9-year-old's father reported he was snatched in a carjacking.
"I am expecting a miracle," a sobbing Theda Thomas said Sunday at a St. Simon of Cyrene Catholic Church vigil for Christian Ferguson. "God, please bring my angel Christian back to us. We love him and we miss him."
Thomas said she was clinging to hope that Christian, requiring daily medication for a protein-digestive disorder, was still alive despite his family's worries that he would not survive without the medicine.
Christian was reported missing on Wednesday. His father, Dawan Ferguson, told police he was driving the boy to his hospital treatment when he stepped away briefly to use a pay telephone. He said a stranger jumped in the vehicle and drove off while Christian was in the back seat.
The vehicle turned up abandoned about two hours later, with no sign of Christian.
"We've looked everywhere," Christian's stepfather, Victor Thomas, said Sunday night.
Police Capt. Harry Hegger has said that Dawan Ferguson stopped cooperating with police Thursday. Hegger also has said it's doubtful Christian is still alive.
John Rogers, a criminal defense attorney retained by Dawan Ferguson, told reporters that Ferguson
has hired private investigators to help in the search, saying "time continues to be of the essence."
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