article_snippet.sent: The person responsible is the man's mother, who on Sunday faced a host of charges after allegedly abandoning police son and catching a bus to Maryland to see her boyfriend, said Philadelphia police Lt.
article_snippet.sent: police son is unable to communicate how police son came to be in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek Park, but John Walker told reporters that police son's mother, whom police son did not identify for CNN, left police son there Monday morning.
article_snippet.sent: Sometime at 11 a.m., mother went to visit mother boyfriend down in Maryland, over in Montgomery County, and we believe mother placed the child into Cobbs Creeks Park," John Walker said at a news conference.
article_snippet.sent: John Walker told CNN police son was transported to Presbyterian Hospital, but CNN affiliates reported police son was being treated at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
article_snippet.sent: It's just unbelievable how we found police son out there last night.
article_snippet.sent: Officials at Philadelphia's School of the Future, which police son attends, became concerned when police son didn't show up for classes and tried to contact police son mother but eventually reached an aunt, CNN affiliate WPVI reported.
article_snippet.sent: his mother indicated to both family members and the police officers that her son was with his mother down with his mother boyfriend in Maryland," police son said.
article_snippet.sent: his mother now stands charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment of another person, neglect of a care-dependent person, unlawful restraint, kidnapping and false imprisonment, the station reported.
article_snippet.sent: his mother has another child, a 16-year-old, who is also being taken care of by family members, WPVI reported.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mom told police son was with Mom in Maryland, but police son was found Friday with blanket, Bible .
  