FRANKFORT, Ind. (AP) — A mother abandoned her 2-year-old boy in a Wal-Mart store, leaving him with a backpack full of toys, a bottle and a note explaining why she could no longer care for him.

The mother said in a message written in Spanish that the father had left her, according to Frankfort police.

“She said she had no means to feed the child. Had no place for him to live,” said Randy Emery, deputy police chief in Frankfort, about 20 miles southeast of Lafayette.

Store employees brought the boy into their security office after they found him wandering around Friday afternoon. Several attempts to locate his mother over the loudspeaker were unsuccessful.

The note also included the boy’s name and date and place of birth, Emery said.

Child Protection Services is caring for the boy, and police are trying to find the mother. Officers are watching surveillance camera recordings and looking for witnesses who saw the woman at the store. Emery said police would like to offer help if she comes forward.

“I know this was probably a very hard decision to leave this child,” Emery said.