UPDATE: At approximately 10:45 a.m., CPD announced that the report of the child being abandoned was false. “A report for filing a false police report has been generated,” the department said.
Chicago police are asking the public to help identify a young girl who was abandoned on the West Side on Monday evening.
The girl, believed to be 2 or 3 years old, was “left” in the 4300 block of West Van Buren Street by a woman at around 6:50 p.m., according to a Chicago Police Department bulletin. The woman fled east on Van Buren in a black SUV after leaving the child, police said.
The woman was described as Black and wearing a green sweater with a brown and black leopard-print scarf.
The girl, about three feet tall and 30 pounds, was found wearing a pink coat with maroon and yellow stripes, a pink Mickey Mouse sweater, and pink Hello Kitty shoes. She was carrying a pink Adidas backpack containing diapers and an iPad in a pink case.
Anyone with information about the child’s identity is asked to contact Area 4 Special Victims Unit Detective Arzate at 312-746-8251. The case number is JK-216767.
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