"Missing 14-month-old’s body found in Ohio creek"Associated Press January 01, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The body of a missing 14-month-old Maryland boy was found in an Ohio creek Wednesday after his mother allegedly lied to police, telling them she had left him on a stranger’s porch.
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Dainesha Stevens’s attorney, Mark Collins, said she made up the story about having left the boy on a doorstep and said she tipped police to the creek where his body was found.
Police began to investigate after Stevens, 24, called 911 Monday to say a family wouldn’t return her 6-year-old daughter after she had agreed to let her go to their house to play with the kids.
After police found the girl safe, Stevens told police she and the friend with whom she was staying had left her son on a doorstep “because they could not care for him any longer.”
It’s unclear when the boy died. Stevens was arrested Tuesday because she failed to protect her son “by allowing an individual to violently spank him numerous times on several occasions,” according to a police charging document filed Wednesday.
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