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'We're overwhelmed with joy': Boy abducted in Georgia 7 years ago found safe, suspects charged
WJCL ^ | Mar 6, 2025 | Graham Cawthon

Posted on 03/06/2025 10:26:06 AM PST by nickcarraway

The disappearance of Abdul Aziz Khan was featured on Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.'

A young boy who was reported missing in Georgia several years ago has been found safe roughly 1,400 miles away.

On Wednesday, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Colorado announced deputies recently found Abdul Aziz Khan after responding to a no trespassing call.

Aziz, then 7 years old, was allegedly abducted by his noncustodial mother Rabia Khalid on Nov. 27, 2017 in Atlanta.

His disappearance was featured on various programs, including Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.'

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a felony warrant for kidnapping was issued for Rabia on Jan. 2, 2020.

Deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office were dispatched February 23 to a vacant home listed for sale in Highlands Ranch, Colorado to investigate a burglary in progress. The homeowner reported seeing two people enter the house illegally through security cameras on the property.

When deputies arrived, two children were in a vehicle in the driveway and two adults came out of the house.

Authorities say the adults initially claimed to be associated with a realtor, but deputies identified them as Khalid and Elliot Blake Bourgeois.

Below video: Authorities hold press conference announcing arrests in the case

Aziz, along with another child whose identity was not released, was placed into protective custody.

Khalid and Bourgeois face charges including Second Degree Kidnapping, Forgery, Identity Theft, Providing False Information to Authorities and Trespassing.

"We're overwhelmed with joy that Aziz has finally been found," Aziz's family said in a statement released by the NCMEC. "We want to thank everyone for their support over the last seven years. Now, as we navigate the next steps, we ask for privacy so that we can move forward as a family and heal together."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: abdulazizkhan; atlanta; colorado; douglascounty; elliotblakebourgeois; forgery; freepun; georgia; grahamcawthon; highlandsranch; identitytheft; kidnapping; ncmec; netflix; rabiakhalid; trespassing; unsolvedmysteries; wjcl

1 posted on 03/06/2025 10:26:06 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; Red Badger; The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar
The homeowner reported seeing two people enter the house illegally through security cameras on the property.

Tiny people. They be sneaky! They learned their lensson, though.

2 posted on 03/06/2025 10:33:03 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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To: nickcarraway

seeing two people enter the house illegally through security cameras
= = =

I’d better put bars on the fromt of my security cameras, then.


3 posted on 03/06/2025 10:33:19 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like she ran away from her husband who apparently was the custodial parent. Maybe this is a religious dispute?


4 posted on 03/06/2025 10:37:34 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Ezekiel

LOL


5 posted on 03/06/2025 10:39:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Ezekiel; nickcarraway; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar; Mama_Bear; Larry Lucido; ...

seeing two people enter the house illegally through security cameras on the property.


Looking through the shutters, agents zoomed into action and said, “F-stop in the name of the Law!”


6 posted on 03/06/2025 10:43:48 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Ezekiel
> Tiny people. <

Donโ€™t jump to conclusions. It could be a really big security camera.


7 posted on 03/06/2025 10:50:25 AM PST by Leaning Right (Itโ€™s morning in America. Again.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
A photography joke. ย  We don't get that very often. ย  I bet lots of people won't get it.
8 posted on 03/06/2025 10:50:28 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister; Ezekiel; nickcarraway; Mama_Bear

A photography joke... I bet lots of people won’t get it.


I think they’ve just been underexposed, lens wait and see.


9 posted on 03/06/2025 10:57:15 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: higgmeister

An aperture, an f-stop, and an exposure meter walk into a bar...


10 posted on 03/06/2025 10:57:32 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

:^)


11 posted on 03/06/2025 10:58:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Iโ€™d better put bars on the fromt of my security cameras, then.

I just gathered my cameras and threw them in the burn barrel. Got rid of that access point all together.

12 posted on 03/06/2025 11:17:46 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: ladyjane

I lot of missing children are taken by the none custodial parent.


13 posted on 03/06/2025 11:18:49 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: nickcarraway

The story sounds less dramatic when you find out the kidnapper was his mom raising him instead of the dad.


14 posted on 03/06/2025 11:31:32 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: higgmeister

“A photography joke. We don’t get that very often. I bet lots of people won’t get it.”

Negative.


15 posted on 03/06/2025 11:32:38 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (For two countries with so many lawyers, there ain't much justice in Canada or America (yet))
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To: higgmeister

You need to stop throwing shade on these people. They could just be underdeveloped.


16 posted on 03/06/2025 11:40:26 AM PST by Spacetrucker
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To: ladyjane

I was thinking that He is a radical Muslim, and she wanted a son to grow up as a Human being. Is it okay to say that Muslims have a tendency to be as insane as Nazi party members circa 1930’s to the present day?


17 posted on 03/06/2025 11:46:24 AM PST by Glad2bnuts
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To: Leaning Right; The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar

You are spot on in pointing out my limited viewing perspective.

It even sez right there in the caption:

“The early ‘Greats’

stopped at nothing to get their picture.”

With an attitude like that — open to the light — they knew how to slide right through

the Pearly Gates.


18 posted on 03/06/2025 11:47:01 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; higgmeister

Looking through the shutters, agents zoomed into action and said, โ€œF-stop in the name of the Law!โ€<<<

You really focused in on all the action. I hope readers will aperturate your skills, instead of just clicking on by.


19 posted on 03/06/2025 11:56:26 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

You are really good at that. ๐Ÿคญ


20 posted on 03/06/2025 9:52:47 PM PST by Allegra
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