After months of legal wrangling, the New York Police Department has agreed to cooperate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom attorneys working pro bono to help find a boy who was a 7-year-old ward of the city’s foster care system when he went missing almost two years ago. As first reported by the New York Post, the NYPD will begin turning over files related to its investigation into what happened to Patrick Alford, who vanished on Jan. 22, 2010, while taking out the trash at the Brooklyn apartment building that was his home at the time.
Patrick Alford
The sharing of files comes after the Skadden lawyers agreed to sign a protective order in which they pledged to keep the files’ contents confidential and to provide police with any new information they uncover that could help determine the missing boy’s whereabouts, according to court documents. The order was signed on Nov. 28, the boy’s ninth birthday.
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