Mother's memories of dead son gone after phone left in cab

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — For the four months that Beka Fant, 23, had with her son Harper, she tried to record every moment of it before he passed away.

Despite multiple surgeries, Harper spent two of his four months alive in a hospital and died on Jan. 18 from a congenital heart defect.

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Since his death, his mother constantly watched videos of him to remember him.

But now she is devastated because she said someone took her phone with all of Harper's videos after she accidentally left it in a taxi cab in Cobb County Sunday morning.

"I even have some videos of him crying on there because every single memory of him was to be cherished," Fant said over the phone from Charleston, South Carolina.

She was visiting family in the Canton area over the weekend and took a taxi back to a relative's house after a night out.

Early Sunday morning she realized her white Samsung Galaxy Note 5 smartphone was still in the taxi.

Fant said she called Victory Cab based in Marietta and a manager told her that the driver found her black and gold phone case, but the phone was not inside.

"Those videos mean everything to me," Fant said.

"That's four months of happiness of my son that I may never be able to get back."

Now Fant and her family is hoping that the person with the phone hasn't wiped the videos that helped her re-live every one of Harper's smiles, breaths and movements.

"It really would mean the world to have those videos," Fant said. "We don't want the phone back, we just want the videos."

Her family notified Cobb County police on Monday that they were looking for the phone.

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