COLORADO SPRINGS — The Colorado Springs Police Department says they are searching for an 11-month-old and the child's mother.
A CSPD spokesperson tells me, their initial investigation was not accurate, and after further investigations overnight police believe the child is with with a biological parent who still has legal rights.
Police are searching for the two to do a welfare check. Police will not be releasing images of the mom and child as they stated in an email, "... but because we know who the child is with, we do not need to go in a public searching for direction at this time..."
In a blotter post police said, the mother took the child from the child's father at Texas Roadhouse Friday evening. Police say the woman was getting ready to leave the state and had asked the child's father to see the child before leaving.
Despite having a protective order against the child's mother the father agreed to meet. The father told police that while they were meeting at the Texas Roadhouse along Powers Boulevard, he stepped outside to grab a diaper bag, when he returned he said the child and the mother were both gone.
Police attempted to contact the child's mother but have been unsuccessful. Police are unsure if she has left the state with the child. A violation of a protection warrant was issued for the mother's arrest and missing persons reports have been filed for both the child and the mother.
This article will be updated as more information becomes available.
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