FOR HER TO BE EXTRADITED BACK TO OHIO. ARE ATKINS HEATHER ATKINS APPEARED INOU CRT TODAY VIA VIDEO FOR THE FIRST TEIM SINCE HER ARREST SATURDAY. IT’S A FUGITIVE FROM ANOTHER STATE WARRANT. SO I WILL UNLESS YOU HAVE AN ATTORNEY. I WILL APPOINT THE PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE TO REPRESENT YOU A PUBLIC DEFENDER ENTERED A NOT GUILTY PLEA ON ATKINS BEHALF. BASICALLY DENYING. SHE IS A FUGITIVE FROM OHIO ATKINS IS ACCUSED OF DRIVING 75 MILES FROM SHELBYVLEIL, INDIANA AND ABANDONING HER TNHE FIVE YEAR OLD SON THOMAS IN COLERAIN TOWNSHIP. THURSDAY A PASSERBY SAW HIM AND CALLED 9-1-1 YOU WANTO T TLEL ME YOUR NAME? YEAH. WHAT’S YOUR NAME FOR 24 HOURS THE BOY'’ NAME AND AGE REMAINED STMYERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON COLERAIN POLICE IDENTIFIED HIS MOTHER AS ATKINS COINCIDENTALLY. SHE WAS ARRESTED SATURDAY IN GEORGETOWN, KENTUCKY ON AN CHARG PAY A FINE AT THE TIME POLICE IN, KENTUCKY. NO IDEA ABOUT THE INCIDENT IN OHIO. BECAUSEHE S WAS ARRESTED IN KENTUCKY A LEGAL PROCESS MUST BE FOLLOWED BEFORE SHE CAN BE BROUGHT BACK TO OHIO NOW THAT SHE’S MEAD HER FIRST COURT APPEARANCE. SHE CAN EITHER WAIVE HER RIGHT TON A ADDITION HEARING ANDE B TRANSPORTED TO HAMILTON COUNTY OR SHE CAN FIGHT EXTRADITION AND REMAIN IN KENTUCKY UNTIL THAT BATTLE PLAYS OUT IN COURT. AND IN THE MEANTIME ATKINS WILL REMAIN IN JAIL HERE IN SCOTT COUNTY HER BOND W SASET AT $10,000 REPORTING LIVE TONIGHT.
Mother accused of abandoning child to face charges in Ohio after waiving extradition
Updated: 12:35 PM EST Mar 2, 2022
The mother accused of abandoning her young son, Thomas, who has autism, on the side of the road in Colerain Township, will be brought back to Ohio to face charges.Heather Adkins, 32, signed papers waiving her extradition, according to her public defender in Kentucky. Once in Ohio, she will face an endangerment charge and a new felony charge of kidnapping. Adkins is accused of abandoning her young son, Thomas, who has autism on the side of the road Feb. 18 in Colerain Township.Adkins was arrested days later in Georgetown, Kentucky. Police said she was at a gas station acting strange when they picked her up.They didn't know she was wanted on a charge in Hamilton County, but they arrested her on an old warrant, for failing to pay a fine.Adkins' mother said her daughter takes medication for depression and thought she was clean when it came to drug use.But police say prior to her arrest on Saturday, Adkins was at Georgetown hospital being treated for heroin and meth.Thomas is currently living with a foster family. Adkins' other two children are at a family friend's house in Tennessee.
The mother accused of abandoning her young son, Thomas, who has autism, on the side of the road in Colerain Township, will be brought back to Ohio to face charges.
Heather Adkins, 32, signed papers waiving her extradition, according to her public defender in Kentucky.
Once in Ohio, she will face an endangerment charge and a new felony charge of kidnapping.
Adkins is accused of abandoning her young son, Thomas, who has autism on the side of the road Feb. 18 in Colerain Township.
Adkins was arrested days later in Georgetown, Kentucky. Police said she was at a gas station acting strange when they picked her up.
They didn't know she was wanted on a charge in Hamilton County, but they arrested her on an old warrant, for failing to pay a fine.
Adkins' mother said her daughter takes medication for depression and thought she was clean when it came to drug use.
But police say prior to her arrest on Saturday, Adkins was at Georgetown hospital being treated for heroin and meth.
Thomas is currently living with a foster family.
Adkins' other two children are at a family friend's house in Tennessee.
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