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Greene told NJ.com that the system needed to change, so no other family was abandoned like they were. 'It's hard to describe the last month - it's heartbreaking, sad and beautiful all wrapped up into one,' wrote Greene on Facebook. On arrival in Florida, two KultureCity volunteers drove them home to New Jersey - where they arrived on Monday. The pair left Aruba on June 5, bound for Miami. 'It takes a family,' he said on Facebook. He got in touch with his contacts at Carnival Cruises, and the company agreed to redirect one of their ships to pick Greene and Elijah up.

One of their messages was seen by Julian Maha, an ER physician and the Alabama-based founder of KultureCity, which helps those with nonverbal disabilities like PTSD, strokes and autism. Greene and the teenager remained on the island, posting desperate appeals for help on social media. Consulate in Aruba ran out of ideas, and I had to get our two other children back to school at Toms River, so Brandon, Brice, and I flew back,' Pacheco said, saying they returned home on May 24.Įlijah and his mother, Jamie Greene, spent almost a month away from home, having left for a week Greene and Pacheco then contacted an emergency medical evacuation company, but they were unable to help. What we didn't know was there is no policy in place for when this kind of situation arises.' 'On the flight home, he became scared and violent and we were asked to leave the plane. 'You think you have all your ducks in a row, Elijah's flown before, we have sedation medicine on hand just in case and we made it to Aruba without incident,' Greene explained on Facebook. The captain of the flight said they needed to disembark, and so the five of them left the plane.Įlijah was given his emergency medicine, but it failed to calm him.

'Something caused him to be overwhelmed, and he began to hit his mother and me and continued screaming.' Greene, a mother of three, said it was scandalous that airlines were unable to accommodate those with invisible disabilities, like her son

Greene and Elijah eventually returned home to New Jersey on Monday, having driven from the port in Miami with volunteers from autism charity Kulture City.

A charity, seeing her post, reached out and began making connections: Greene and her son eventually boarded a Carnival Cruise ship to Miami on June 5.

Greene's friends and family fundraised for a medical evacuation flight, but that refused to take them: she made a desperate appeal on Facebook.

Pacheco and their two younger children, aged 12 and 7, flew home on May 24 but no airline would take the teenager.

Greene's son Elijah Kapatos, 15, who she described as having 'low-functioning, non-verbal autism', had an episode on the plane, and United refused to fly them.

The family of five were traveling to Aruba for a week, and on May 17 arrived at the airport to board their United Airlines flight back to Newark.

Jamie Greene and her boyfriend Carlos Pacheco left their home in Toms River, New Jersey, for a vacation with their three children on May 10.

Autistic boy, 15, and his mother are trapped in the Caribbean for THREE WEEKS after he had meltdown on plane and airlines refused to fly him him home: Family is rescued by Carnival Cruises who diverted their ship to pick them up and bring them home