Overview
- Officers in Copperas Cove responded Oct. 17 and found the apartment empty after the boy said his family moved out while he was at school.
- The adults claimed the child's uncle would pick him up but could not provide contact details, and the uncle later told police he had no knowledge of any plan.
- Child Protective Services initially directed officers to release the boy to boyfriend Keven Dwayne Adams after he withheld an address that investigators then obtained from utility records.
- Both Erica Renee Sanders and Adams were arrested, and Sanders is charged with intentionally abandoning a child younger than 15 without intent to return, a third-degree felony.
- The boy was later placed with Sanders’ brother, and a neighbor told police the couple had a history of kicking him out.