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Updated: 7:42 PM May 23, 2005
Child Abuse Investigated
Mother claims mistaken identity An Omaha woman is in custody, accused of Felony Child Abuse, after allegedly trying to sell her 18-month-old child into prostitution.
Posted: 1:39 PM May 23, 2005 |
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An Omaha woman is in custody, accused of Felony Child Abuse, after allegedly trying to sell her 18-month-old child into prostitution.
Thirty-four-year-old Elizabeth Harlan was arrested shortly before 11:30 Sunday night.
Police were responding to a call near 32nd and "V" Street to check the well being of a child. Neighbors made the prostitution allegation.
Officers were directed to 3913 ½ South 24th Street.
Police entered the apartment and say they found Ms. Harlan passed out on the sofa while the one-year-old sat on the floor eating cigarettes.
The child was transported to Creighton University Medical Center for treatment and Harlan was taken to Central Police Headquarters where she was interviewed and then booked into detention for Felony Child Abuse.
In court Monday, Ms. Harlan's attorney told the judge that the child was in someone else's care Sunday night and it must have been that person who tried to sell the boy into prostitution.
Harlan's aunt and cousin are now trying to get the foster care system to release the boy to them.
Haralan is being held on $800,000 bond.









