Missing Baby Located, Mom Charged: Police

PHOTO: Police say that Flora Khatun, pictured above, abducted Liz Khatun, her six-week old baby, Wednesday morning. Photo courtesy of Fairfax County Police

UPDATE 7:45 p.m.: The baby girl who was abducted by her mother Wednesday in Northern Virginia has been found, according to Fairfax County Police. The mother was supposed to be served with a Child Protective Services order but instead fled with the baby, police said.

Police say they received a tip Wednesday afternoon from a local reporter who received information from a source on the possible whereabouts of the mom, Flora Khatun, 30, and her 6-week-old baby, Liz. The baby was described as weighing nine pounds with brown-eyes and brown hair.

At around 5 p.m. Wednesday, with the assistance from the FBI’s Washington and Baltimore field offices and the Prince George’s County Police, Khatun was located with the baby in the 3500 block of Dean Drive, in Chillum, Md., in Prince George's County. The area is about a 45-minute drive from where she was last seen in the Annandale area of Fairfax County, Va.

Khatun, who is from the Falls Church area and was last seen in Annandale, was taken into custody and transported to a local jail, police said.

The baby was in good condition and will be returned to the appropriate Fairfax County agency for care and custody, police said. Khatun will be extradited to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where she will be served with a parental abduction warrant.

Authorities sent out an Amber Alert about the baby girl, born June 3, Wednesday morning, saying she was abducted Wednesday from the Annandale area of Northern Virginia and was "in extreme danger."

Police say Flora Khatun, the mother of the baby girl, abducted her child after she was supposed to be served with a Child Protective Services order Tuesday at the Fairfax County Department of Social Services in Annandale, according to Officer Monica Meeks, a Fairfax County Police spokeswoman.

Police did not have information available about why Flora Khatun was being served with the Child Protective Services order.

The mother would not tell authorities where her baby was located, Meeks said. On Wednesday, detectives obtained a parental abduction warrant for Khatun, of Falls Church. The woman fled the area and was reportedly last seen at the social services office at 7611 Little River Turnpike in the Annandale area, according to police.