Mom Of Missing Tennessee Toddler Arrested, Says She Can’t Take Polygraph Due To Pregnancy

(CNN) –– The mother of a Tennessee toddler missing for two months was arrested on Tuesday after giving investigators false information, police say.

“During the course of the investigation, Megan ‘Maggie’ Boswell provided detectives and agents with a number of conflicting statements,” Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Andy Seabolt said in a statement.

Further investigation, he said, revealed some of those statements were false. Boswell has been charged with one count of false reports.

Her daughter, 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell was last seen two months ago and was reported missing last week by her grandfather.

In a news conference last week, Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said he believed she hadn’t been seen since early December, when a babysitter last reported seeing the child.

“We want to know why the child was not reported missing earlier,” Seabolt had said in a separate statement.

Mother claims she can’t take polygraph test

In a Facebook message, Boswell told CNN affiliate WJHL she is pregnant and therefore unable to take a polygraph test.

But the sheriff’s office said it doesn’t use polygraph tests.

“No one asked her to come take a polygraph examination,” Seabolt said Tuesday.

In a statement to CNN, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesman Josh Devine said Boswell wasn’t scheduled to meet with a polygraph examiner from the bureau either.

Boswell, who did not return CNN’s request for comment, had previously spoken to the affiliate after her daughter went missing saying she had told authorities where to find Evelyn.

“My mom took her to a campground in a silver camper and if they don’t go tonight, I’m going to go find her myself,” she told the news station Monday. When asked about the investigators’ claims that she gave conflicting stories, she said she was trying to protect her mom.

Boswell has sole custody of Evelyn, while the baby’s father is an active-duty military serviceman stationed in Louisiana, officials have said.

The last time she saw her daughter was a little before Christmas, Boswell told the affiliate. She said her mom was going to babysit Evelyn because she had work.

Angela Boswell — the baby’s grandmother — was arrested last week in North Carolina along with William McCloud. They were found traveling in a gray 2007 BMW authorities had previously said they were looking for because its occupants were believed to have information about the toddler’s whereabouts.

Boswell and McCloud remain in custody in Wilkes County without bond and will be extradited back to Tennessee to face charges there, according to the Wilkes County Sheriff’s Department.