The child is in the custody of the state department of Child Protective Services, the Southaven Police Department said in a Facebook post.
“The male child is approximately two years old and is unable to give his name or the names of his parents or relatives,” the department initially posted about the boy.This 2-year-old boy knew how old he was, but not his name after being abandoned at a Goodwill drop-off in Southaven, Mississippi.
The man was wearing black jogging pants and a black cowboy hat when he dropped off the little boy, police said. A suspect was arrested across state lines in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said. “Southaven Police received numerous tips, and with the assistance of F.B.I. offices in both Mississippi, and Tennessee, along with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department a suspect related to this case was taken into custody in Memphis,” the department said.the note that said “child abandoned … no phone number for mum” was scrawled on a paper towel.
Police released this photo in the case of a boy, 2, abandoned at a Goodwill in Mississippi. Picture: Southaven Police DepartmentPolice found the note in a plastic bag dropped off with the boy. Also inside was a change of clothes and some food, according to the station.He said the man walked up to him and said “the child’s mother couldn’t care for him” before walking away, according to the station.