Rasheda Perkins accused of abandoning her 3-year-old in a boarded-up apartment

Rasheda Perkins told police that she dropped her 3-year-old son off with his father at 23rd and Prospect last Thursday night. The 22-year-old was charged the next day with two counts of first-degree child-endangerment after the owner of a boarded-up apartment building at 2608 East 23rd Street called police.

The building’s owner reported that a small child was abandoned in Apartment B. Police arrived and found Perkins’ 3-year-old son wrapped in a white sheet, lying alone in the corner of the living room.

An ambulance picked up the 3-year-old boy and took him to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where medical staff diagnosed him with severe eczema and “failure to thrive.”