Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins, the Indiana mother accused of abandoning her autistic child in Colerain Township. She drove her three children down to Tennessee, dropped off two other children with a friend and kept Thomas in the car, the 5-year-old. He's nonverbal," Deters said. "On the way back from Tennessee she pulled off the highway onto this Copper Creek lane, which is a new subdivision in Colerain Township, and basically kicked the kid out of the car.