Heather Adkins admitted in an interview that she left her son, but her story shifted several times before she finally said she abandoned him in Ohio 'to save him from me.'
GEORGETOWN, Ky. — A Shelbyville mother accused of abandoning her young son with autism in Ohio is sitting in a Kentucky jail tonight, waiting to appear before a judge.
Court documents say passing drivers found the boy a block from where he was abandoned. He was wearing a jacket and sweats. Adkins is waiting to appear in court on a traffic ticket out of Kentucky. Ohio authorities also want her held for child endangerment.Sharon Eads, Adkins' mother, described the events as"a nightmare."
"She was located in the parking lot, knocking on windows of cars, hanging around, not really having a purpose," said Georgetown Police Department Assistant Chief Darin Allgood.
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