SE Portland kidnapping suspect said she was taking victim to store for snacks

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — The woman arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 5-year-old said she was just taking him to the market to buy food and drinks, new court documents show.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by KOIN 6 News, the young boy’s mother was asleep on the afternoon of May 2 when he disappeared from their apartment complex.

After looking over security footage, the boy was spotted leaving the complex following a woman, later identified as LeeAnne Osborne, with a red wagon. The mother said she didn’t know the woman and that no one had permission to take her son anywhere.

Osborne, who was later found to be homeless, and the boy were later spotted on other security cameras at a nearby 7-11 and Chevron station.

Early on May 3, a community member called police saying they had spotted Osborne and the boy near Southeast 151st Avenue and Southeast Main Street where police responded and made the arrest, the documents said.

The boy was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation.

After the arrest, police said that Osborne told them that she had seen the boy around the apartment complex multiple times before and had spoken with him and given him candy in the past.

On the day of the incident, she told police that the boy had wanted to go to a nearby market for some food and drinks and that she asked him to get his mother’s permission which she said that the boy had told her had.

After that, Osborne and the boy went to the 7-11 and Chevron where she said she bought the boy drinks and snacks with her food stamps card.

Osborne claimed that the boy then said he wanted to buy a container of slime, so the pair went to a different market however that’s when Osborne said they got lost and she didn’t know where the boy’s apartment complex was.

She said she tried to get help finding the apartment but no one was willing to help her, eventually, it got dark and Osborne said she walked to a nearby school and built a fire to keep warm.

Early the next morning, Osborne said that someone who looked like a school employee told her to leave the property, and after that is when she was contacted by police and arrested, telling police that her phone was dead and that she couldn’t call 911.

Osborne is set to appear in court Monday on a second-degree kidnapping charge. She also has a long criminal history including theft, harassment and drug charges.

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