Mother Says Boy Needed a Male Role Model
`A determined 9-year-old runaway who managed to board flights from Seattle to Texas in efforts to rejoin his grandfather in Dallas was seeking a father figure, his mother said.
Sakinah Booker said her son dislikes his new neighborhood, is afraid of a sex offender who lives nearby and has been impatient with her efforts to move back to Dallas.
She said her son, Semaj Booker, misses having a father.
“He needs a male role model and he’s really seeking it,” she said Thursday morning in a report aired on CNN. [..]
Meanwhile, authorities scrambled to determine how Semaj, an 80-pound, 4-foot-9 fourth grader, managed to slip through airline and airport security.’
