The 19-year-old mother of a toddler abandoned along with a dog inside a car during an attempted auto theft in the Highland Park area has been arrested, officials said Wednesday.
The Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services published the child’s photograph and implored the public for help finding his family after the boy was found around 9:55 a.m. Sunday in the 300 block of North Avenue 52 after a car owner reported a man tried to steal his vehicle before fleeing on foot.
The owner then found a child and a dog inside his vehicle, according to the LAPD…