Against the challenging terrain of the Dandenong Ranges and cold nighttime conditions, a young boy was found in the early hours of a Saturday morning in April by a young Kalorama resident out mountain biking.
Six-year-old Parsa Naimi was found around 8.20am Saturday 19 April by a local Kalorama resident, Asher Schinkfield, eight kilometres from where he went missing.
Parsa travelled around eight kilometres north of the playspace overnight and the young boy had been wearing an AirTag, but he had taken it off.
Emergency service staff and search and rescue volunteers all searched but had no luck locating him, while the family were supported by the local community as they waited.
Mountain biker Asher Shinkfield was out for his morning ride and had heard the little boy was missing, but did not expect to find him.
“I was coming up the fire road and saw him just on the side of the road,” he said.
On having found the young boy, Asher said it did make him feel good, but that the huge community effort was amazing.
