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Missing Florida baby didn't exist, police say

CNN NEWS WIRE SERVICES

Friday, December 26th 2008, 5:25 PM

MIAMI, Florida - Megan McCormick faced television cameras on Christmas Day to plead for the return of her missing 5-month-old son.
"I don't even know if he's dead or alive," she said.
In fact, she knew full well that the child had never existed, police say.
McCormick was trying to lure an ex-boyfriend back when she invented a missing-child story that triggered a statewide search this week, police said Friday.
Investigators have charged the 22-year-old with filing a false police report. If convicted, they say, she may have to pay authorities for the cost of their search.
She was scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon.
McCormick had described her infant son as having a mohawk and a fake tattoo. She told reporters his name was Riley Buchness and that she had left him with a nanny who had a French accent and a gap between her teeth.
She invented the story to lure back an ex-boyfriend by pretending he had fathered a child he did not know about, said Delrish Moss, a spokesman for the Miami Police Department. When the boyfriend showed up and asked to see the child, Moss said, McCormick told him the boy was missing.
"He finally decided to show up and she created a story and he had no idea," Moss said.
On Christmas Day, the estranged boyfriend attended a news conference with McCormick under the impression that he had a son who was missing.
"I don't understand," John Buchness, 26, said then, choking back tears.
"It's Christmas.'"
McCormick told police she had left her son with a nanny named Camille.
"I don't know if they're in Florida," she said. "I don't know where they are."
Police around Florida started looking for the boy and the nanny, using the descriptions McCormick supplied, police said. She even gave police a picture of the boy, but Friday they said they believe she had downloaded the photo from the Internet.
Authorities have called off their search.

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