(CNN)A teenager who has been missing for two and half years has been found alive in a closet of a child pornography suspect in west Germany, police said.
The 15-year old boy was found on Friday during a police search in Recklinghausen, in the German state on North Rhine-Westphalia.
Police were searching a home of a 44-year old man suspected of distributing child pornography, when they stumbled on the boy. “The officers discovered a boy in the closet. An investigation showed this was a 15-year old boy who has been missing for a long time,” the Recklinghausen police said in a statement.
