CAROLINN ALTAFFER - 8 months - / Arrested: Mother China Altaffer - Grove, OK

Amber Alert Cancelled in Grove for Missing Toddler

Delaware County officials have cancelled an Amber Alert for a missing infant.

Law enforcement agencies in Grove, Delaware County, and surrounding areas announced they were looking for 8-month-old Carolinn Altaffer Friday morning. Just after 11:00 a.m., authorities announced the girl had been returned and was in police custody.

Delaware County Sheriff Harlan Moore told the Tulsa World that Carolinn Altaffer was taken to the hospital shortly before 11 a.m. Friday by her mother, China Altaffer. Moore says Carolinn is safe and the mother is in custody.

Authorities were also searching for the baby's father, Ronald Altaffer. The sheriff says investigators did not know where the father is.

Carolinn was described as extremely malnourished and needing immediate medical attention when the Amber Alert was issued shortly after 1 a.m. Friday.

Authorities say the parents took the child after learning that state Department of Human Services workers were preparing to take the girl into emergency custody.

The above picture is an older one of Carolinn.

http://www.okcfox.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kokh_vid_10629.shtml

What am I missing. They don't take care of her. Don't feed her. Yet kidnap her when the state steps in to protect her and save her life. WTF?

Delaware County Couple Avoids Jail Time On Child Neglect Charge


Posted: Feb 05, 2014 1:11 PM EST Updated: Feb 05, 2014 1:57 PM EST
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China Prater, Carolinn Altaffer and Ronald Altaffer.

JAY, Oklahoma -
The Jay parents who disappeared when authorities attempted to take their infant into protective custody pleaded no contest to child neglect charges and received a deferred sentence, court records show.

Their daughter has been returned to them, according to the Grove Sun.

A judge sentenced Ronald Altaffer, 24, and China Prater, 21, on Monday.

Carolinn Altaffer was the subject of an Amber Alert issued by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in April 2013. The alert was canceled after the infant showed up at a Grove hospital.

At the time, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services said it had information the child was severely malnourished and obtained a court order to get the child emergency care.

The couple was arrested and charged with child neglect.


According to the Grove Sun, testimony during Monday's court hearing indicated Altaffer and Prater completed the majority of a DHS treatment plan that is intended to correct the behavior that led to the neglect charge.

The judge gave them both four-year deferred sentences returned the child to their care.


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