Monday, August 23, 2010

The Associated Press

A Pittsburgh woman is facing charges after she allegedly left her 6-year-old son with a stranger on board a bus while she was being arrested on a shoplifting charge.

Police say Portia Scoggins had two children with her Friday when she boarded a bus after taking items from a pharmacy, but just one when they pulled it over and arrested her.

Officers say Ms. Scoggins left the older child on board, giving a stranger the address for one of the boy's friends and instructions to drop him off there.

Police later learned the boy had been on the bus and found him at the address Ms. Scoggins supplied to the stranger.

The children are in the custody of county social workers

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