A.J. Jones fathered his first child at 15. He admits he and his wife were too young at the time to take care of the infant girl by themselves, so it was helpful to have his mother around.
The little girl is now 5 and Jones has two more children, but his mother — a large part of their early life — has been missing since Feb. 6.
“Not a day goes by when she doesn’t ask me if they found her grandmother,” Jones said of his oldest child.