Prosecutor: Missing baby’s mom upset over break-up

Published September 20, 2012 9:44pm ET



PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman charged with criminal wrongdoing in her child’s disappearance more than two years ago ran off to another state with the child because the baby’s father had broken up with her, prosecutors said Thursday.

Also, the young mother tried — out of retaliation — to put the boy up for adoption against the father’s wishes, prosecutor Elisa Ramunno told jurors at the opening of Elizabeth Johnson’s trial.

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