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Nov 4, 2009 6:08 pm US/Eastern

Wandering Tamarac Toddler Reunited With Mom

TAMARAC (CBS4) ― A Tamarac mother is thankful that her young son is safe after he wandered away from home late Wednesday morning.

Jayden Fitzgerald, 2, was spotted by residents of the St. Andrews apartment complex in the eight thousand block of Nob Hill Road around 11:30 a.m. They called the sheriff's office, who sent a deputy to pick up the barefoot boy. Deputies said he appeared to be in good health.

Two hours later the boy's mother, identified as 19-year-old Meghan Fitzgerald, came out of one of the apartments looking for her son, saying she had been sleeping. After talking with a deputy, she learned that he had been found wandering around on his own.

"This mother should be glad that her child wasn't hurt because the potential for him, for this to be a very bad situation was there," Broward Sheriff's Office Spokesperson Keyla Concepcion said. "He was in a very busy street all by himself; much worse could have happened."

Around the same time the boy's father saw his son's picture on the news and called the sheriff's office to identify him.

Both mother and child were taken to the sheriff's district office; from there the boy was taken to a local hospital to be checked out after his escapade.

The Broward Sheriff's Office said charges may yet be pending against the mother but have yet to be filed. The toddler has been placed with child protective services until other family members can be located who can take temporary custody of the boy while they do a study of his home life.


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