Dad pleading for information on missing 1-month-old is charged in Alabama baby’s death
A father pleaded for the return of his missing 1-month-old — then was charged in the Alabama boy’s death.
Caleb Whisnand Sr., 32, was arrested Wednesday night, hours after speaking at the emotional news conference, multiple news outlets reported.
No attorney information for Whisnand was listed in news reports, and a Facebook user believed to be him didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday morning.
The missing baby, Caleb “C.J.” Whisnand Jr., was reportedly last seen with his dad on Monday night. The boy’s parents said the father went to pay for gas at a Circle K in Montgomery before discovering his child had vanished, WFSA reported.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said the FBI and state and local agencies were working on the case.
“Some of the information that we were getting wasn’t lining up correctly,” Sheriff Derrick Cunningham said during a news conference, according to video from WFSA and other news outlets. “So we were able to do a lookout on this child to let people know we were looking for this baby until we could get more concrete information.”
On Wednesday, Caleb Whisnand Sr. joined the child’s mother during a news conference to ask for information about their son’s disappearance.
“If anybody’s got anything — any places that I could have gone — you know who you are,” he said, according to Alabama News Network’s live stream of the news conference.
Soon after those public remarks, officials said the child’s body was found in Lowndes County. Whisnand was charged with manslaughter and held in jail on a $100,000 bond, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
Chief Deputy Kevin J. Murphy said that charge will be upgraded to manslaughter without a bond.
The boy’s mother reportedly wasn’t charged in his death, and few details have been released in the case.
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