SCOTT COUNTY, Ky. — A woman accused of abandoning her six-year-old son in Ohio on Thursday was arrested in Kentucky on Saturday on an unrelated charge.
Members of the Georgetown Police Department in Scott County, Kentucky, arrested Heather Nicole Adkins at a gas station for an unpaid fine from 2011, WXIX reported. Adkins was allegedly banging on car windows when police were called.
Adkins is accused of taking her son from Shelbyville, Indiana, and driving him 75 miles away to Ohio, where she abandoned him, The IndyStar reported.
Police in Colerain, Ohio, posted on Facebook when they found the child walking alone. Officers described the child, who has autism, as non-verbal. In a later update, officers said they were working to return Adkins to Ohio to face charges there for abandoning her child.
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When police in Kentucky arrested Adkins, she gave them a fake name, but officers were able to identify her by using her social security number, WTHR reported. That was how they determined she was wanted in Ohio for abandoning her son.
Adkins sat down for an interview with WKYT, where she admitted leaving her son but changed her story several times over the course of the interview. When the reporter asked Adkins why she chose to leave her son, she responded, “To save him from me.”
The child’s father is also in jail, after he was arrested for a probation violation in Shelby County, Indiana, WISH reported.
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