A Pennsylvania mother charged with hiding information about her missing twins for 10 years now admits they’re living with a family friend in Georgia.
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Penn Hills Police have asked the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to work with the image to try and determine what the twins may look like now, at age 17.
She didn’t return messages left on her home phone Tuesday when The Associated Press originally reported the charges against her.
He is facing multiple charges, including intimation, relation or obstruction in child abuse cases, criminal use of a communication facility, criminal conspiracy, obstructing administration of law or other government function, false reports to law enforcement and false identification to law enforcement.
State confidentiality laws prevent the child welfare agency from saying why the children were removed. But police said that woman never saw the children and didn’t even know Fowler had twins.
According to investigators, CYF says the last account they have of the children’s well-being was around the time the twins were 6 or 7 years of age.
Fowler told the station that her children have lived with a friend in Georgia since they were 13 and, before that, with a friend in North Carolina.
Later, police were told there should have been six children living with Fowler, not four.
According to detectives, Fowler told police she sold the twins for $2,000 apiece to Barbara. The user provided the same phone number that Patricia had given during her interview with authorities on August 8, the complaint said.
When police pressed Fowler, she told them she met a man named Mike at a bar in Homestead, another Pittsburgh suburb, and he introduced her to a woman named Barbara several years ago. But when investigators told her she would be charged criminally for that, she then said they weren’t sold.
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The complaint said a search warrant was obtained Wednesday, and Datwon was found in possession of the phone with the assigned number that contacted police via text message, claiming to be Ivon.
