So the boy was with his dad's aunt, the boy's grandmother's sister?
Or was the boy placed with his dad's sister, the boy's aunt?
Baker Co. Sheriff Joey Dobson said the boy was born in California. The mother was arrested and jailed in San Bernardino for meth possession. The child was then turned over to the father, who didn’t want to take care of him. The father then gave the child to his aunt, who later died. Before she died she left the child with her partner, Suzette Stevenson; Stevenson then moved to Baker County Florida. The child was put into a Pre-K program in Baker County in June 2007, but then was withdrawn.
Stevenson brought the child to the First Coast from San Bernardino in California.
The child’s parents are in jail, and his aunt - who had custody - died.
Stevenson met Martin online, and agreed to move here.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/mostpopular/news-article.aspx?storyid=96026&provider=top
Irrelevant- what’s relevant is the the aunt’s “partner” (Stevenson) did not have legal custody and should not have been able to take the boy anywhere. I don’t know whose responsibility it would have been to realize when the aunt died that there was a child that at that point would have gone into state custody and sent to foster care if both parents were in jail.
It’s possible that the father just sent the boy to the aunt without any paperwork or legal transferral of custody. In which case I believe even the aunt would not have been a legal guardian. Not sure how that works but would perhaps explain why the kid was totally off the radar (if that was the case and not shoddy administration in child services).