Sheriff: 2 NC children abandoned in Mississippi; 1 dies
January 25, 2021 GMT
FOREST, Miss. (AP) A 2-year-old North Carolina girl has been found dead after she and her 7-year-old brother were abandoned in a pickup truck in a wooded area of central Mississippi, a sheriff said.
Authorities continued searching for the father on Monday. The mother was charged with child neglect. The boy was taken into protective custody.
Scott County Sheriff Mike Lee told WAPT-TV that James Harrison Jr. and Amy Harrison of Salisbury, North Carolina, were traveling through Mississippi with the children on Thursday when the couple argued at an Interstate 20 exit near the town of Lake.
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January 25, 2021
FOREST, Miss. A 2-year-old Salisbury girl has been found dead after she and her 7-year-old brother were abandoned in a pickup truck in a wooded area of central Mississippi, a sheriff said.
Authorities continued searching for the father on Monday. The mother was charged with child neglect. The boy was taken into protective custody.
Scott County Sheriff Mike Lee told a news outlet that James Harrison Jr. and Amy Harrison of Salisbury, North Carolina, were traveling through Mississippi with the children on Thursday when the couple argued at an Interstate 20 exit near the town of Lake.
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