Crime & Safety
Sheriff's Detectives Search for Mother in Child Abandonment Investigation
Detectives are looking for the mother of two young children who were left on a porch in Marinwood.
The Marin County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a woman suspected of abandoning her two female children at a Marinwood home on April 5.
At 4:30 p.m. a woman called the sheriff’s deputies when she found a 2-year-old and a 9-month-old sitting on the front porch of her house on the 2500 block of Opalstone Terrace. When the deputies arrived, they found toys and dirty blankets near the porch and the children were at the front door crying, filthy and hungry, the report said.
The woman told the deputies that her 23-year-old daughter, Jennifer Ross, had texted her earlier asking her mother if she would take care of her children.
The woman also told the deputies that she saw two black males in a red Chevy Suburban place the girls on her porch and then drive away toward Las Gallinas Avenue, according to the report.
The Department of Children and Family Services took the children into custody and deputies are currently looking for Jennifer Ross for investigation of child abandonment.
Anyone with information regarding this case should call the Marin County Sheriff’s Department at 415-499-7265, or leave an anonymous tip with Bay Area Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS.
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