This toddler’s name is a mystery. So is where his family is.

The mop-headed tyke was standing all alone in the parking lot, wearing nothing but a black T-shirt and a diaper. He was barefoot, standing near the back of a car parked next to the gate of an apartment complex.

Ebony Williams, parked next to him, figured the little boy’s mom must be nearby, maybe getting something out of a car.

Williams got out of her truck and heard him crying. The mother of four stopped to check on him.

“I asked him ‘Where’s your mommy?' and he just kind of pointed kind of everywhere,” Williams said. “I reached out my hand for him, and he grabbed a couple of my fingers and we just started walking around the complex hoping that I would find somebody looking for him or calling his name.”

Williams said she has been staying with her friend who lives inside the Miramar apartment complex. She asked neighbors if they knew whose kid he was and knocked on doors. No one recognized the two-foot-tall little tyke. He couldn’t form complete sentences enough to tell Williams who he was or where he lived — it’s all baby talk, Williams said.

More than 24 hours later, no one has come forward looking for their son.

Williams called police after she had exhausted all other options, and the Miramar Police Department took over the efforts to find his family, including knocking on doors, passing out flyers, stopping cars that drive by the apartment complex and posting the boy’s picture on social media.

The boy’s identity, his parents’ identity or location and how he ended up wandering the streets outside of a Miramar apartment complex are a mystery. He was found near the 1860 block of Southwest 68th Avenue about 7 a.m. Sunday, and appears to be 2 or 3 years old, 25-35 pounds, and has a head of sandy brown curls and brown eyes.

The T-shirt he wore says “little troopers” in white lettering, and features an army of child-sized stormtroopers, characters from the movie franchise “Star Wars.”

Little Troopers is the name of a registered charity that supports children in military families, specifically those who serve in the British Armed Forces. It’s unclear whether the shirt is affiliated with the charity.

“We are extremely concerned as to what possibly could have happened,” said Tania Rues, spokeswoman for the Miramar Police Department. “Usually in cases like this ... within an hour or two to three tops, someone will come forward saying that they know who the child is or maybe a parent will come forward. It’s quite unusual for it to have been more than 24 hours now and we still don’t have any information that can assist us in identifying this child.”

Shortly after the news conference, people claiming to be some of the boy’s extended family contacted police, Rues said. Investigators with the department are working with them to verify that they are related and to track down the boy’s parents.

Williams said the boy was very pleasant and friendly. He looked thirsty, so she gave him a bottle of water she had in her car.

“He knew how to drink out of it pretty good, then he handed it back to me as if he’s used to that,” Williams said. “He didn’t look dirty to me, or malnourished or like nobody was taking care of him. He just kind of looked like maybe nobody was paying attention and he kind of snuck out the door.”

He didn’t have any visible physical injuries, Rues said.

Williams speculated that maybe someone who was caring for him was cleaning the house or went to the store and didn’t close the door all the way. He isn’t tall enough to reach a doorknob or a lock, she said.

“It’s heartbreaking because nobody is looking for him,” Williams said Monday at a news conference near the apartment complex where she found the toddler. “We’re still all waiting for the Amber Alert to say that somebody is looking for this baby. Even now, I can’t believe nobody’s said, ‘Oh my god, you found my baby.‘”

Williams joked that she would gladly take him if no one comes forward looking for their baby.

“I got four, but I’ll take him,” she said. “I’m not a hero, I’m not anything else. I’m just a mom who saw a baby.”

The boy was cared for and transferred to foster care, Rues said. She said it’s too early to speculate about what may have happened, or whether the boy’s parents would face charges if they were found.

Anyone with information on the child’s identity should contact the Miramar Police Department at 954-602-4000.

Brooke Baitinger can be reached at: bbaitinger@sunsentinel.com, 954-422-0857 or Twitter: @bybbaitinger

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