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Cameron S. Beckford
Columbus police searching for missing toddler
Columbus police searching for missing toddler
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/12/30/police-search-for-missing-toddler.htmlColumbus police are searching for a 14-month-old boy near an East Side creek — a boy they believe was abandoned by his mother on a stranger’s front porch on Friday. A search is under way in Big Walnut Creek, near Livingston Avenue, for the toddler, identified as Cameron S. Beckford. Police said that Cameron’s mother was from Frederick, Md., and had arrived in Columbus with him and a 6-year-old daughter. She told Cameron’s father that she couldn’t care for Cameron and that she left him on a front porch in a housing development near Brice Road and Livingston Avenue on the Far East Side, police said. The house is about 2 1/2 miles away from where police are searching this morning.
According to radio-dispatch reports, a Frederick police detective called Columbus police at 3:21 p.m. yesterday and wanted a well-being check on Cameron and another child. The detective told the dispatcher that Cameron’s mother had “unexpectedly” left Maryland.
Lt. Clark Pennington, commander of the criminal investigation division in Frederick, said this morning that the father, who lives in Maryland, contacted police on Saturday. He told them that the children’s mother had taken them to Ohio on Dec. 15 and he wanted the kids back, Pennington said.
But the Columbus house the detective asked police here to check was vacant.