Children Services Board looking into boy’s story

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Ashley Moore, "Saton Brown."

Authorities are showing the boy’s picture in Youngstown and Warren.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — The Trumbull County Children Services Board still doesn’t know how much is true of the story told by a 14-year-old boy who turned up Sunday night on the doorstep on the Warren Family Mission.

But the board now believes the boy came to Youngstown four years ago from Atlanta, said Marcia Tiger, executive director of the CSB.

The boy said his name is Saton D. Brown and that he lived with a woman for several years in Youngstown, Tiger said.

CSB officials, who have placed the boy in foster care, have tried to check out his story by showing his photograph around the Warren and Youngstown areas, but practically no one has recognized him so far, Tiger said.

Apparently one of his stories about his parents being killed in Youngstown in June 2007 is untrue, but CSB doesn’t know much else, Tiger said.

The boy has told CSB and the pastor at the mission that he had been in the Warren area for several months and had been moving from place to place and sleeping outdoors near the Harding High School football stadium, among other places.

The boy told CSB he had never been to school, but he could read quite well, Tiger said.

Anyone with information about the boy should contact Trumbull County CSB at (330) 372-2010.