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Georgia police have reunited a boy with his mother that was reported missing for four years after finding him hidden behind a wall. The boy’s father kept the boy hidden in his Atlanta suburb home, but the boy used his wits to end his horrible predicament.

The unnamed 13-year-old boy was able to gain freedom after gaining access to a smartphone and contacting his sister online who then got word to the boy’s mother. The father and mother were long split, with the father remarrying.

After a 2010 visit to his father, the boy was said to be missing and remained so until this past Saturday (Nov. 29). After a pair of searches at the father’s Jonesboro home, the boy was found behind a false wall and charged the two adults and three juveniles with a number of crimes involving the boy’s imprisonment.

NBC News reports:

During the second search, the young boy was able to call his mother, who passed along critical information to the officers on scene. That led them to find the child hiding behind a wall. Five people — two adults and three juveniles — in the home were charged with obstruction, false imprisonment and cruelty to children, according to the Clayton County Police Department, which said additional charges are pending. The two adults are the teen’s father and stepmother, Daniel said.

Local media reported that the boy’s father refused to return him to his mother during a visit in 2010. The mother, who lives out of state, reunited with her son in Georgia on Saturday.

Watch NBC’s video report of the reunion between the missing boy and his family below.

Photo: NBC News/WXIA