Mom arrested in Florida in son’s death

COLUMBUS – A Columbus woman charged with murdering her toddler son last October has been arrested by Florida authorities.

Tina Ann Dayton, 22, was charged with murder in the Oct. 7 death of 2-year-old Clifford Stark III in an apartment on Refugee Road.

She was arrested Monday by the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force, Columbus police said.

Clifford Stark died at Nationwide Children’s Hospital a day after police officers found him injured in the home.

The Franklin County Coroner’s Office on Feb. 27 ruled Clifford’s death was a homicide.