{"id":1663,"date":"2023-07-04T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:27:19","slug":"17-year-old-who-went-missing-in-2015-while-walking-his-dogs-found-injured-but-alive-8-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old who went missing in 2015 while walking his dogs found injured, but alive 8 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old who disappeared in 2015 while walking his two dogs in northwest Houston, Texas in 2015 has been found safe.<\/p>\n<p>According to local reports, Rudy Farias was found unresponsive outside of a church. He reportedly had cuts and bruises all over his body and blood in his hair.<\/p>\n<p>He is now recovering in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy was 17 years old when he went missing March 6, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The teen\u2019s dogs were recovered, but Rudy never returned home. The startling discovery prompted his family to report him missing.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities searched for the teen for several days before suspending the search on March 10. Two days later, on March 12, 2015, after officials had gathered more information they restarted the search only to end it the following day.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, authorities reported Rudy had been suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety, and it was possible he was disoriented from not taking his medication.<\/p>\n<p>8 years later<br \/>\nOn Sunday, July 2, 2023 the Texas Center for the Missing revealed Rudy had been \u201clocated safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease continue to keep his family in your prayers as Rudy recovers in the hospital,\u201d the organization said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTXCenter%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02waCNTLxzdmWLntqpa6ufk7S9vD2JGqs1rww1he6BqUZKAdgTAmip1mouUFgVobbel&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"684\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rudy\u2019s mother told KTRK she believes her son was abused.<\/p>\n<p>She said that while she\u2019s tried talking to her now 25-year-old son, he\u2019s only able to say a few words at a time and curl into the fetal position.<\/p>\n<p>She knows it will be a long journey towards healing for her son, but is grateful that he made it home alive.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so rare to receive such good news after such a long time. I\u2019m so happy for Rudy and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Now they need all the prayers they can get so Rudy can begin his journey to heal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old who disappeared in 2015 while walking his two dogs in northwest Houston, Texas in 2015 has been found safe. According to local reports, Rudy Farias was found unresponsive outside of a church. He reportedly had cuts and bruises all over his body and blood in his hair. He is now recovering in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}