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Inside The Dramatic Alabama Bunker Rescue, 'Please Don't Hurt Him, He's Sick,' Begged Kidnapped Boy's Mom

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Feb. 5 2013, Published 2:21 p.m. ET

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As the 5-year-old boy who was rescued after spending a week at the hands of a murderous madman is reunited with his family and happily playing with his toy dinosaur, new details of the underground hell he endured are emerging.

Ethan, whose last name has not been released but has been confirmed as suffering from Asperger's Syndrome, has not revealed much about his traumatic ordeal to his family yet, said his aunt, Debra Cook, who is just happy to get "little buddy" back.

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As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes ambushed a school bus on Tuesday in the rural town of Midland City, Alabama, shooting the driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr. dead, and snatching the young boy before holing him up in an underground bunker.

The tense standoff came to an abrupt end on Monday when through the use of big-tech cameras inserted into the 6-by-8-foot make-shift prison, police became increasingly concerned by the kidnapper's erratic behavior and decided it was literally time to pull the trigger, reported ABCNews.com, with FBI special agents positioned near the entrance of the bunker using two explosions to gain entry at the door and neutralize Dykes.

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