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Inmates Baby-Sit Toddler Found On Highway
March 29, 2009Prison Work Crew Share Lunch, Play With Boy, 2
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Authorities in Maryland said a prison work crew kept a toddler safe after the child was found wandering alone on a rural highway.
A corrections officer said the six minimum-security inmates shared their lunches with the boy and played with him, while authorities spent hours trying to locate the 2-year-old's relatives.
A trooper said a dump truck driver had spotted the toddler early Friday on a hilly quarry road near the Pennsylvania line. The trucker then handed the boy to the litter-picking crew for safekeeping.
Troopers eventually found the boy's home. The father told police the child was being watched by a teenage daughter, who later left without notice. Maryland state police are investigating.
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