A Utah woman has been arrested and charged with abandoning her 2-month-old baby in a driveway in Washington.
Police said the woman reportedly drove into a stranger’s driveway and struck the homeowner’s truck, according to KSTU. Three witnesses reported that she said her baby was sick and she had to get to a hospital, then got into the truck she hit and tried to start the engine.
The witnesses pulled her out.
According to the arrest documents, the witnesses said she went back to her SUV and began pulling things out and setting them on the curb — including a car seat with the baby. Then she got back into her vehicle and drove away.
When police arrived, they found an address in St. George on a FedEx box and went there. Before they arrived, however, another officer reported seeing the vehicle, which sped away at about 100 miles per hour.
The court documents aid the woman was slurring her words and didn’t know her name when she was finally arrested.
The baby had a small scratch on her cheek and a rash, but otherwise appeared to be in good health. She was taken to St. George Regional Hospital for an evaluation.
Kylie Lynn Smith, 36, was charged with child abandonment, failing to stop at the command of police, theft, child abuse, reckless driving, and intoxication, KSL said.
The station said Smith was the fourth woman to be arrested in Utah in less than a week for leaving a child alone or unsupervised.
Veronica Rose Gourley, 33, was arrested in Tooele on Monday after she gave birth over the weekend then left her newborn in the hospital for seven hours while she smoked fentanyl. She was charged with child endangerment and child abandonment.
Mindy Lynn Hatt, 46, and Danika Lynn Cunningham, 24, were charged with child endangerment and drug possession on Sunday when witnesses reported a child alone in a Bluffdale park. The child said his mother had been doing heroin and was asleep.
Smith was charged earlier this month with aggravated assault, domestic violence in the presence of a child, and intoxication.
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