A Missouri man is the suspect in the death of a child who last lived at an Iowa group home. Sergeant Mike Patrick works in the police department in Lawrence, Kansas where 34-year-old Raymond Booth, of Cameron (Missouri), crashed his Dodge Neon into a fence and trees at a “T” intersection.He says the first officers on the scene found a man with two young girls and a boy walking away from the crash, and after talking with the man officers determined the crash was no accident. Police took the kids into protective custody and phoned their mother at the family’s home in Cameron.The mother told officers there should be four children, but they couldn’t find another, then learned from Booth that the child had been left on the Kansas turnpike after “being physically disabled.” While the cops were trying to figure out what that meant, the state patrol reported a child dead on the freeway west of Kansas City. It was 11-year-old Levi Booth, who’d been picked up by his father on Tuesday from a group home in Creston, Iowa.The children remain in protective custody of the Lawrence police department and are being treated for their injuries from the car crash. After they finished questioning Raymond Booth, Leavenworth County deputies arrested him. Levi Booth had been a resident since 1995 at the group home operated by “Midwest Opportunities.”
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