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PHOENIX - The mother of a Phoenix-area baby missing for nearly three months is due in court.

Elizabeth Johnson had refused to leave her cell for a court hearing last week, but Judge Timothy Ryan ordered deputies to "use any means necessary" to get her to today's hearing.

The 23-year-old Johnson is being held in Maricopa County jail in connection with her son Gabriel's disappearance. Gabriel was 8 months old when he was last seen in late December in San Antonio, Texas. Police don't know whether he's alive.

Police say Johnson drove the boy to San Antonio from Tempe, stayed about a week, then took a bus to Florida without him.

She was arrested Dec. 30 in Florida and is charged in Arizona with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.