The brother of Pennsylvania twins that welfare caseworkers haven’t been able to locate for 10 years has been charged with lying to police by pretending to be one of them. The 47-year-old Penn Hills woman was charged last week with giving police false and conflicting information about the twins and their well-being, at one time even claiming she sold them years ago for $2,000 each to a woman she barely knew. However, when police told Fowler about the potential penalties of selling a child, she told them they were not sold.
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She didn’t return messages left on her home phone Tuesday when The Associated Press originally reported the charges against her.
Law enforcement officials have checked with the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children and made no progress, and other databases have provided little assistance.
According to the criminal complaint, Fowler told police last month that the twins were being cared for by a SC woman.
The brother of missing Penn Hills twins, Ivon and Inisha Fowler, is now also facing charges, along with his mother – who is accused of withholding information on her children’s whereabouts.
Fowler was charged last week with endangering the welfare of children, obstructing a child welfare investigation and concealing the whereabouts of the children. But the agency called police back July 6 to tell them there should have been six children there. The only thing Patricia and Datwon Fowler have consistently told police is that the twins are OK, Burton said.
State law prevents child welfare workers from saying why Fowler’s children were being monitored. The twins have been identified as Ivon and Inisha Fowler.
The complaint says Datwon Fowler told police he was going to run once the police showed up. The kids will be 18 in October, she said. They could not find any record of the children ever being enrolled in school.
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A third story, more shocking, came when Fowler allegedly told investigators she met a man at a bar who introduced her to a woman named Barbara. According to the criminal complaint, the phone became active again Wednesday, and Global Positioning System location showed it was at Patricia’s residence on Bryant Drive. She said it was “never a problem until this June”. “We just don’t know what to believe or not to believe”.
