CPS officials did not know the child existed, do not know where the baby was born and can only take the mother's word that the girl was delivered almost 13 months ago.
"Unless we had a new report, we couldn't just go visit them. According to our records, they had no children," Carter said. "The law doesn't allow us to monitor people. Once a case is closed, it's closed."
A judge granted the state emergency custody of the child, who is in foster care. A full hearing is scheduled next week...
Parker and Larsen lost their parental rights to the other four children after failing to show up for the civil trial in mid-May 2011, according to Liberty County court records. They appealed the case, but the ruling was upheld last month by a state appeals court.
If the little girl discovered Tuesday indeed was born in July 2011, Larsen would have been in her third trimester during the trial.
Their absence "may have been because she was really pregnant," Carter said.
By August, when the pair pleaded guilty to one count each of injury to a child and were sentenced to three years of probation, the new baby had been born - if Larsen is telling the truth...
By January, Larsen was in trouble with the law again - this time, for driving while intoxicated and drug possession charges...
Late Thursday, Capt. Rex Evans with the Liberty County Sheriff's Office said authorities are still looking for Parker, 34, and have not learned much about his whereabouts from relatives and associates...
Larsen remains in the Liberty County jail on a probation violation, bond forfeiture and cruelty to animals charge.