Police: Mom in Hospital After She Left Disabled Son in Park, Traveled to Maryland

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A Pennsylvania mother who reportedly abandoned her severely disabled son in a park with only a blanket and a Bible while she traveled to Montgomery County to visit her boyfriend has been hospitalized for undisclosed reasons since late Friday when an arrest warrant was issued for her.

Nyia Parler, 41, is accused of pushing her 21-year-old son in his wheelchair into a wooded section of a Philadelphia park the morning of April 6, and then hopping a bus to Montgomery County, reports NBC Philadephia.

Authorities say the victim was found by a passerby lying in the leaves next to a wheelchair and a Bible on Friday night. The young man is described as severely disabled with cerebral palsy and unable to communicate.

WNEW TV reports that Philadelphia police Lt. John Walker said Monday that the son is in stable condition in a hospital there for dehydration, malnutrition and cuts.

Parler was located at a Silver Spring address. She faces charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, neglect of a care-dependent person, unlawful restraint, kidnapping and false imprisonment, the TV station says.

Montgomery County Police say they cannot comment on why Parler is in the hospital.

“To see that kid laying there, it’s heartbreaking to see that another human, especially a mother, could treat someone like that,” Walker told NBC.

»Screenshot of scene where victim was found from NBC Philadelphia