The Center for Missing & Exploited Children together with the FBI is resuming the search for a boy kidnapped 45 years ago when he was just 17-days old.

Authorities just days ago released a digitally processed image of what that boy might look like more than 40 years later, reports KTLA.

Police say a woman posing as a social worker kidnapped Kevin Art Verville Jr from his mother from the county of San Diego in Southern California.

According to Fox11 News, a $10,000 reward is now being offered in this case.

Police say a woman who identified herself as Sheila went to the home of Verville and convinced his parents that she could enroll the family into a program that offered financial assistance to military families.

She even offered to return to the home to take them to her office to enroll them. On the way to the office, Sheila asked the mother to get out of the car and to knock on the door of another family to let them know they were there to pick them up.

When Kevin’s mother got out of the car, Sheila took off with Kevin and he’s never been seen by the family since.

Investigators believe Sheila had a specific profile of a baby she wanted to abduct. She wanted a child under six months old who was part Filipino.

“From the Vervilles’ accounts, along with other residents, investigators say they’re looking for a [white] woman who was in her twenties back in 1980, with red or blonde frizzy hair,” NCMEC said. “She had a tattoo on her left hand in the webbing between her thumb and index finger. It was described as a circle with an ‘X’ inside. [She] also appeared pregnant.”’

Investigators believe Kevin may still be alive and not even aware that he was ever kidnapped.

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