Sep 11, 2008 3:45 pm US/Eastern
Billboard For Missing Boy Goes Up In Lynn
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The billboard sits atop a building in Lynn's Wyoma Square.
WBZ
A billboard featuring a missing poster for a 5-year-old boy was unveiled in Lynn.
Clear Channel donated the space to help police in the search for
Giovanni Gonzalez, who has been missing since Aug. 16 when his mother went to pick him up from a weekend visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.
The billboard sits atop a building in Lynn's Wyoma Square. It was the brainchild of 16-year-old Rich Yearwood, a Lynn teen who wanted to do something to help. So, he approached Clear Channel about using the billboard space.
"I went and saw it and it was huge!" Yearwood told WBZ. "I felt great that I could try to help out Giovanni's mother."
The search for Giovanni has spanned throughout Lynn, including parks,
cemeteries and lakes, and down to
Puerto Rico where the boy's father is from.
Gonzalez has refused to cooperate with police and will not say what happened to Giovanni. He is being held on $500,000 cash bail on charges of child endangerment.
Police are now investigating whether or not Gonzalez may have had the help of an accomplice.
Gonzalez did not have a car, so police are also hoping buses and public transportation will offer clues into the little boy's disappearance.
Police urge anyone with information about Giovanni's whereabouts to contact Lynn police at 781-595-2000.
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