Discovery of a 20-month-old baby abandoned in a Newark, De., gas station has led to kidnapping charges against the father of the child.
Authorities today charged Dwayne Jackson, 25, of Edison, N.J., with kidnapping and first-degree reckless endangering for locking the little girl in the bathroom of the Shell service station on College Avenue in Newark.
Meantime, police in Rampago, N.Y., said a woman whose corpse was found burning there is linked to girl. However, they have not identified the apparent homicide victim as the mother of the girl.
Officials have not released the girl’s name, nor the identity of her mother, with whom she had been living in North Brunswick, N.J. The child remains for now in Delaware with her foster family.
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