UPDATE (February 24, 2022):
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (ADAMS) – The Shelbyville mom charged with abandoning her son in Ohio is offering an explanation.
Investigators in Ohio say Heather Adkins told them she left her son in her broken-down car in a Cincinnati suburb last week because she’d run out of gas and went to get more.
Police found her five-year-old autistic son wandering in a wooded area nearby, they found her in Kentucky days later at a local gas station.
Adkins is in jail in Kentucky, though she’s going to be brought back to Ohio to face felony charges there. The boy’s father is in jail in Hamilton County on unrelated charges.
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UPDATE (February 23, 2022):
CINCINNATI, Ohio (ADAMS) – The Indiana mom who police say left her five-year-old autistic son in a Cincinnati suburb last week is now facing kidnapping charges.
Prosecutors in Ohio added the charges yesterday. Heather Adkins is accused of taking her son from Shelbyville, Indiana to Colerain, Ohio, and leaving him at the end of a dead-end street.
Police say she told them that she left the boy to “save him” from her. She’s in jail in Kentucky, the boy’s father is in jail in Indiana on unrelated charges.
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ORIGINAL STORY:
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (ADAMS) – We’re getting more information about the parents of the five-year-old Shelbyville boy who was abandoned in Ohio last week.
Authorities say the boy’s mother, Heather Adkins is in jail in Kentucky and his father, Kevin Adkins, is in jail in Shelbyville.
Police say Heather Adkins dropped the little boy off in a wooded area in a Cincinnati suburb last Thursday. Police say she admitted to abandoning the boy to “save him” from her.
She’s due to be taken back to Ohio to face charges. There’s no word on what charges may be coming for the boy’s father.
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