A New York mother was arrested in Arkansas City Wednesday after local police learned she left her home state with two young daughters of which she did not have custody, police chief Sean Wallace said.
Amanda Perot and her two children ? ages six and two ? were taken into custody at a residence in the 1500 block of N. Fourth. Perot was taken to the Cowley County Jail after police learned she was wanted in Yates County, New York on a count of endangerment of a child.
She will remain in jail until New York officials can pick her up.
Wallace said his department received information about the children from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and quickly learned they were considered endangered.
The children had been reported missing by their grandmother. Perot was reported to have been visiting two Ark City men, one of which she had met on the Internet and was a registered sex offender, Wallace said.
The children were taken to the Wichita Children’s Home and will stay there until their grandmother ? who is their legal guardian ? can travel to Kansas to pick them up.
