COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio police searching for a 14-month-old Maryland boy say his mother admitted she left him on the front porch of a stranger's home in Columbus days ago.
A missing-child alert says Cameron Beckford's mother abandoned him Friday night and is now in custody. He was wearing a puffy black coat, gray pants, black and red boots and a gray elephant hat. Police say he's black with brown eyes and a Mohawk hairstyle.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1thLC2u ) reports police searched a park near a creek on the city's east side on Tuesday.
Police say the boy's father said the mother took Cameron and a 6-year-old daughter from Frederick, Maryland, to Ohio earlier this month. But the Columbus address that police were asked to check was vacant.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
