Sep 10, 2008 7:11 pm US/Eastern
Accomplice May Have Helped Kidnap Giovanni
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Giovanni is pictured here with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.
WBZ
Lynn police are looking into the possibility that someone helped a Lynn father kidnap his 5-year-old son.
Giovanni Gonzalez has been missing since Aug. 16 when his mother went to pick him up from a weekend visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.
Police have always been looking into the fact there may have been an accomplice in the alleged kidnapping, the Essex County District Attorney's Office said.
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.
Gonzalez did not have a car, so police are now hoping buses and public transportation will offer clues into the little boy's disappearance.
A billboard with Giovanni's picture has been scheduled to be put up in Lynn's Wyoma Square. Clear Channel donated the space in hopes it will help with the search.
Investigators in Lynn say they have no reason to think that
Giovanni is not alive despite a
bloody mop being found at his father's home after the boy's disappearance. Upon his arrest, Ernesto Gonzalez had a cut on his hand that he wouldn't explain.
The search for the young boy has spanned throughout Lynn, including parks,
cemeteries and lakes, and down to
Puerto Rico where Gonzalez is from.
Giovanni's mother has pleaded to Gonzalez to talk to police.
Police urge anyone with information about Giovanni's whereabouts to contact Lynn police at 781-595-2000.
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