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11-month old West Alabama Home Safe following Amber Alert

The Amber Alert

Yesterday at about 11 a.m. local time, residents of Gordo, Perkins County, Alabama received an Amber Alert on their smartphones alerting them to the disappearance of 11-month old baby Christian Clay Perkins. This report is according to a source that had been in Dollar General Store, a shopping store located opposite the local police station.

The Amber Alert stated that the child was in ‘extreme danger’ and was possibly in the care of his parents, Blake Perkins who is nineteen and Tandra Goff, who is eighteen years old. Perkins and Goff had taken the child from the home of his foster parents. The alert, in addition, gave brief descriptions of the two teenagers and of their vehicle with an appeal to anybody who spotted them or their car to call into the Gordo Police Department with that information.

Gordo Police Chief Todd Hall said that the boy, Christian was supposed to have been in the care of the Alabama Department of Human Resource (ADHR) at the time when his parents abducted him.

He also expressed sentiment regarding the welfare of the child who had been missing but was later found. “I feel relieved knowing that the boy has been brought home safe and sound, and I can now breathe a little easier knowing that he [Christian] is no longer in the grave danger that he was in a day ago.”

His relief was also expressed by residents of Gordo who had tried helping in finding the child. “We are a tight-knit community,” said Cornellius Billups, who lives in Gordo, “so we are glad to hear that the missing child has been found and that he is safe.”

Searching for the missing baby Christian had been a collaborative effort by many parties, said Chief Hall. Unknown to local authorities by then, Goff and Perkins had fled the county and gone to Memphis with the child. While there, they had gone to stay with their relatives. Hall says the Marshal Service is the one which pointed out possible areas where the Perkins and Goff could have taken the child.

The police were still running with this information when the parents’ relatives called in and gave up the location of the couple. The family members had known that the child Goff and Perkins had with them was supposed to have been in ADHR custody. The Gordo Police Department and the local Marshals managed to track down the couple and follow them from Mississippi to Alabama, where the police caught up with and arrested them. The relatives who had called them in had apparently convinced Goff and Perkins to head back to the State of Alabama.

Blake Perkins and Tandra Goff were charged with ‘the interference of custody’ after their arrest and are now sitting in the Perkins County Jail awaiting their arraignment. The bond for the two has been set for fifty thousand US dollars.

Chief Hall remarked that he was pleased with people’s quick response to the amber alert.