The mother of a missing 14-month-old boy told police she abandoned him on a porch - then days later led police to his viciously beaten body that had been stuffed inside a backpack and dumped in an Ohio river, a court has heard. When Cameron Beckford was reported missing last Friday by his father, Dainesha Stevens, 24, claimed she left the toddler on a porch because she could no longer care for him. Five days later, she led police to the youngster's mangled body in Big Walnut Creek in Columbus, Ohio, authorities say.
Stevens and her son were staying with a childhood friend, Kurt Flood, at his home in Columbus, after she fled the home of the boy's father in Maryland two weeks ago. No one has yet been charged in the boy's death, though Stevens was called in front a judge after she was charged with failing to protect her son from child abuse. A court heard that Cameron was horrifically beaten between December 21 and 23 - a week before his body was found. Stevens has now been charged with failing to protect her son 'by allowing an individual to violently spank him numerous times on several occasions.' Flood, also 24, is being held in the county jail on an unrelated misdemeanor and a probation violation stemming from a felony weapons charge. Stevens made up a story about leaving the boy on a porch and says that was her way of asking for help, said her attorney, Mark Collins. 
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