Mystery ‘boy’ is actually a girl who saw her family members killed in 2007

WARREN — She cut her hair from 6 inches to 1 inch to look like a boy.

She ran away from the home in Warren where she lived with her aunt and showed up at the Warren Family Mission, where a pastor took her in, straightened up her odd-looking hair, gave her a meal and called police.

The whole time, she claimed to be Saton D. Brown, a 14-year-old boy, who had been living on the streets for several months. The youth said his parents had been killed.

For a couple days, the Trumbull County Children’s Services Board, which took custody of the youth, felt sure that some of the child’s story was not true, so investigators from CSB and the Warren Police Department did some checking.

Finally, on Wednesday morning, after the child’s picture was shown in newspapers, including The Vindicator, and on television, reports flooded into CSB: The boy was actually a girl named Ashley Moore, whose mother and two brothers were killed in Youngstown on July 31, 2007.

For the complete story, see Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com.