BELGRADE, Maine (AP) - A Maine mother is facing charges after her special needs son wandered away from home and had to be pulled from a stream five miles away by a stranger.
State police say 31-year-old Melissa Godin of Belgrade was issued a summons Tuesday on an endangering the welfare of a child charge.
The pre-teen, whose exact age was not disclosed, was wet but otherwise uninjured. Trooper Diane Perkins-Vance says Godin did not realize her son was gone until police brought him home.
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The boy wandered off Monday morning and was found at 6 a.m. by a woman heading to work. She pulled him from the stream near Long Pond Storage Dam in Mount Vernon.
The rescuer, Patricia Stanton, tells the Kennebec Journal (https://bit.ly/1rEwbzY ) the ordeal left her shaken.
Godin could not be reached.
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Information from: Kennebec Journal, https://www.kjonline.com/
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