Woman lied about missing baby, arrested

[chucktaylor]

Source: wsvn.com

MIAMI (WSVN) -- A mother accused of making up a story about her missing baby has been arrested.

Police arrested and handcuffed 22-year-old Meagan McCormic Friday morning, after she reported her child missing at Christmas time, even though the baby never existed to begin with.

Miami police said McCormic had a miscarriage when she was three months pregnant. However, investigators said she pretended to carry the baby to full term in order to keep her boyfriend from breaking up with her.

On Thursday, the supposed parents of the 6-month-old, which McCormic said was named Riley Buchness, made a tearful plea to have their baby come home safely. She said she last left the baby in the care of a babysitter on Tuesday. "I don't even know if he's dead or alive, if they were in a car accident, I don't even know if they're in Florida, I don't know where they are," said McCormic with the man she called the boy's father, 26-year-old John Buchness, crying at her side.

Police said McCormic made up the story when Buchness asked to see the child. To make the story seem authentic, she reported the baby missing to police. Police said McCormick used pictures from the Internet and passed them off as her son.

Police explained McCormic's scheme appeared even more elaborate when she impersonated the supposed nanny that made off with the imaginary baby. "She made something up, and her story was the nanny, who supposedly had the baby all day did not bring the baby back. The fact is she was the nanny. She had a separate cell phone, using it as the nanny saying, 'Yeah, I'm on my way I'm stuck in traffic,' which the baby never existed," said Miami Detective Freddy Ponce.



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[LeftyMom]

1. Damn. That's nuts.

[Debi]

2. OMG -

What the heck?

Had dad not seen the kid since it was 'born'? How does that work? :crazy:

[BadGimp]

3. FAIL!!

omfg

how frickin crazy bat shit stupid are these people?

[davidthegnome]

4. It's a sad, sorry situation altogether

They clearly have significant issues - and yes that's an understatement. Somehow it just strikes me as sad that people will play such elaborate games for the sake of keeping a partner, when the partner will otherwise leave.

[Shardik]

5. OMG. That's the kid they described as 1 foot tall, a mohawk and a fake anchor tattoo.

Strange people they be.

[dweller]

9. But it's TRUE! he was 1 ft tall, with a mohawk and fake anchor tat

in her mind...

dp

[Javaman]

14. punk popeye.

"oh me goshk, where's me parents!"

[NaturalHigh]

6. I have to feel some sympathy for this woman.

She's obviously nuts. I'm willing to bet she's had diagnosed mental issues in the past.

[islandmkl]

7. hey...it's florida...this is not an extraordinary story coming out of florida...

it was just the 'daily best'....

[timtom]

10. Why would you make such a

sublimely stupid statement like that?

Do you feel really cool jumping on the Flori-DUH bandwagon?

It does set you apart, but in a negative way.

[islandmkl]

17. i am a recent 'left-florida-for-the-islands' long-time florida resident...

the sheer number of residents may provide some answer to the amount of 'weird' news that comes our of florida...

if you think that somehow 'only the stuff in florida gets attention', than you are not paying close attention to news from throughout the state...

florida is in no way 'the worst' but it can easily compete for 'strangest' by sheer volume....

observe 'news' emanating from Polk County alone...not to mention high school teachers apparently in some hidden competition to get caught having sex with their minor students....

on the other hand, your response is some kind of defensive-attack, assuming i am merely a ignorant 'flori-duh' heckler...

florida is not a good place for thin skin, and i would be happy to discuss all the attributes of florida, good and bad, any time...

[glowing]

8. The girl may be having some PTSD issues surrounding the miscarriage..

if that was even real?

[Historic NY]

11. Its got to be something in the water down there...has to be.

[cannabis_flower]

12. Oh, what a tangled web we weave

when first we practice to deceive.

So supposedly she had been carrying on this charade for 6 months when she said she was pregnant and then another 6 months. She seemed pretty desperate to hang onto this guy

[Justyce]

13. What's strange is if he hadn't seen the baby yet in 6 months, doesn't

sound like there was anything to hang onto anyway. :crazy:

[jazzjunkysue]

15. Right. He obviously did'nt know her friends or family, either. They knew there was no baby.

So, if she wasn't seeing him and he wasn't seeing her friends, what kind of relationship was she protecting? An online one?

Can't the father count to nine?

[GinaMaria]

16. What the hell?

:wow:

That took a lot of work and effort on her part. I hope John Buchness runs as far as he can from this woman.