Search Continues for Miami Girl Whose Mother Told Judge She Died

Police continued their search Monday for a Miami toddler who's been missing since last November and is feared dead.

Detectives passed out flyers Monday evening with a picture of little Angela Dufrene, who would be two years old now.

On Thursday, the girl's mother, Marjorie Dufrene, told a Miami-Dade judge that the girl had died and "was no longer with us," the Miami Herald reported.

The 30-year-old mother said her daughter died "sometime last year," the Herald reported. Sources told the Herald that the mother provided investigators with conflicting accounts of what happened to her daughter. In one version, the girl suffered a fatal fall and her mother discarded the body in a dumpster, the report said.

Authorities hope Angela is still alive and are continuing their search for her. She's listed as "endangered" on the police flyer.

Dufrene hasn't been charged with a crime. In an email to NBC 6 Friday, Florida Department of Children and Families officials confirmed that the mother had a history with the state's child welfare system, but said the details are confidential.

"We are very concerned about the well-being of this child," DCF wrote in statement Thursday. "The department has initiated a child protective investigation regarding the circumstances that led to the disappearance of the child and we will continue to work closely with law-enforcement."