Search Continues For Missing Boy, 5

BOSTON -- A new photo of a missing 5-year-old Lynn boy was released Tuesday as officials continue to search for the child.

The photo shows the child, Giovanni Gonzalez, with his father, Ernesto L. Gonzalez Jr., who has been charged with child endangerment in connection with his son's disappearance.

Gonzalez was arrested Monday and ordered held on $500,000 cash bail following his arraignment in Lynn District Court. Giovanni's whereabouts remain unknown.

Giovanni Gonzalez weighs approximately 40 pounds and is 49 inches tall with black hair and brown eyes. When last seen, he was wearing blue denim jeans, a red T-shirt, a silver braided chain and black Spiderman sandals. He was carrying a black backpack that had the Transformers robot characters on it. It contained some of his clothes and toys.

He has a faded skin pigmentation mark on the lower right side of his chest and a small scar above his eyebrow.

Giovanni was brought by his mother to his father's home at 2 Brightwood Terrace in Lynn on Friday for a weekend visit. Police said Gonzalez did not return Giovanni to his mother's custody at the end of the weekend.

Anyone with information about the child's disappearance or whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Lynn Police at 781-595-2000.