Her son hid out for 16 days. Why she’s calling for a new type of phone alert [Video]

A woman in eastern Ontario is breathing a sigh of relief this week after police found her son hiding in an abandoned building 16 days after he vanished in the night.

But Jenny Tozer’s agonizing wait to be reunited with her son Logan now has her joining the call for a new type of phone alert — one that would flag vulnerable people who have gone missing to residents living in that region. 

Had that option been in place, Tozer says, Logan probably would have been returned much sooner to their farm on the outskirts of Havelock, Ont., a small community about 40 kilometres east of Peterborough.  

“I wouldn’t have [had] to worry,” the mother of nine homeschooled children said of the past two weeks. 

Known to wander

This wasn’t the first time Logan went off by himself.

The 18-year-old is into adventure books like the Hardy Boys and enjoys exploring empty buildings …