| August 19, 2008 Search for missing boy continues in Lynn, MA
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(Scot Yount, NECN: Lynn, MA) - The search for five-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez continues. He has not been seen since this weekend, and his father is facing charges. Now the boy's mother and investigators are speaking out.
Police took a dumpster away this morning as evidence near the Brightwood Terrace Apartments, but wouldn't say why.
The boy's father, Ernesto Gonzalez, is in jail on $500,000 bond, charged with child endangerment. Lynn Police say he won't answer questions about the boy's whereabouts.
The boy's mother, Daisy Colon, is begging for her son's safe return. He is a very outgoing person. "If anybody sees him, he's just, like, talkable. He's very outgoing," said Colon.
Giovanni is Hispanic, weighs 40 pounds, has black hair, brown eyes and a birth mark on the inside of his left ankle.
Police say Giovanni's father, Ernesto, had a cut on his hand when police first met with him and he has a previous conviction of assault and battery charges.
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