15 Dec 2020
Police in Mississippi have arrested one suspect after a toddler was abandoned outside a Goodwill store with a note and a change of clothes.
The two-year-old boy, who authorities have not identified publicly, was left behind at the Southaven donation center on Monday morning, the Southaven Police Department announced Monday.
Authorities said the toddler was dropped off by a man wearing a black cowboy hat and black jogging pants before he fled the scene on foot.
Police said the toddler had with him a plastic grocery bag containing a change of clothes and a handwritten note on a paper towel which read: “child abandoned… no phone number for mom.”
The two-year-old boy - named Sergio - was left at the Southaven, Mississippi, store at 9.50am on Monday
He was seen on surveillance footage being dropped off by two men and a woman who stopped their red SUV at a nearby gas station
Antoinette Smith, the boy s mother, said that she wasn t the woman seen in surveillance footage arriving at the nearby gas station
She claimed that the boy was left with a male acquaintance sister in Memphis as she went to Nashville
It was later revealed that the sister was actually the man s girlfriend
Smith said she was left in Nashville after she refused to prostitute
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National media coverage about a 2-year-old boy left abandoned at a Goodwill in Mississippi has helped shed light on issues of child abuse and neglect during the pandemic. It has also caused a spike in inquiries from around the country from those wanting to purchase Christmas presents for the boy and other children treated at an advocacy center in the small town of Southaven.
Mississippi Child Protective Services (CPS) declined to comment on the specific case involving the 2-year-old boy, who was taken into their custody after he was dropped off at a Goodwill in Southaven, Miss., around 9:40 a.m. Monday. Police said he was left with a change of clothes and a note that said, child abandoned … no phone number for mom. Officials said staff at the Goodwill immediately called 911.
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