Police say foster boy left behind at Browns game

CLEVELAND (AP) — A central Ohio couple is charged with child endangering after police say they tried to abandon their 9-year-old foster boy at a Cleveland Browns game.

ONN-TV reports 56-year-old Anna Fugate and 54-year-old Ernest Fugate of Circleville appeared today before a municipal court judge.

Investigators tell the station Anna Fugate sent the boy into Browns Stadium with two strangers following a tail-gate argument with her husband on Sept. 25, when Cleveland hosted the Miami Dolphins. The station reports the strangers went to stadium security.

The couple has pleaded not guilty. Their lawyer, Michael Goldberg, tells the station there are “two sides to this story” and that the couple’s side will come out. He says the boy is in foster care Pickaway County.

The Fugates face pretrial hearings Nov. 2.