New York authorities issued an Amber Alert on Friday for a toddler whose mother was found dead upstate this week.
Authorities are investigating the abduction of little Owen Hidalgo-Calderon, who was last seen on Joy Road in Sodus, NY, at about 9:50 a.m. May 16, according to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.
“I would hope that he was alive, but I don’t believe he is alive because of the time period that’s gone by,” Barry Virts of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office said of 14-month-old Owen Hidalgo-Calderon.
“As a grandfather and as a father, my heart tells me we will find young Owen, but my experience in law enforcement, what I’ve seen . . . I believe this will be a recovery.”
“The child was taken under circumstances that lead [sic] police to believe that they are in imminent danger of serious physical harm and or death,” the Amber Alert read.
Owen, 14 months old, was described as approximately 2 feet tall and weighing about 30 pounds. He is known to need asthma medication.
According to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, the body of the boy’s mother, 18-year-old Selena Hidalgo-Calderon, was found in a bag Thursday in a wooded area near an apple orchard in Sodus, where she reportedly worked.
She had been missing for a week.
Her boyfriend, Everado Reyes, was then arrested on charges of tampering with physical evidence after admitting to burying Hidalgo-Calderon but not to killing her.
Authorities are continuing to search the 350-acre farm.
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