According to court documents, Heather Adkins drove her son Thomas, who is non-verbal and autistic from Shelbyville to Ohio where he was taken to an unfamiliar, dark, dead-end street and left alone near a flooded creek.
The Indiana woman accused of abandoning her 5-year-old son on a dark road in Colerain Township has pleaded guilty to child endangerment.
While waiting for police to arrive, Reese said he did his best to make sure Thomas, who was cold and soaking wet, felt safe. He shared his dinner and tried to show him the love of a parent, thanking God he found the child. A Ring camera captured 5-year-old Thomas Adkins walking up to someone's front door after his mother abandoned him on a dark rainy night in February:
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