A 19-year-old Maryland woman has been charged with attempted murder and child abuse after she allegedly abandoned her newborn baby in Glen Burnie earlier this month. Olivia Dee Rose Thompson was taken into custody on Friday, Fox 5 DC reported. In addition to attempted first and second degree murder, Thompson is charged with first and …
The sound of crying led police to a baby boy abandoned outside a Detroit medical clinic Wednesday morning. Police said a person heard the crying outside Riverview Medical Office, a former hospital, and called police, Fox 2 reported. “My officers went and purchased diapers for the baby and then we got the baby to the …
A 22-year-old woman from Guatemala was arrested this week after investigators determined that she abandoned a newborn baby boy in a restroom trashcan earlier this month. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said that the woman, who won’t be identified for her own “safety and protection,” was charged with cruelty to a child likely to cause …
A baby’s cry alerted a woman taking out her trash to an abandoned newborn Saturday morning at an apartment complex in Arlington, Texas, WFAA reported. The sobbing baby boy was in a container next to the dumpster at Monterra Pointe Apartments, the station said. The woman called 911 and responders had to administer CPR before …
UPDATE: Police in Texas revealed that the woman who reported finding an hours-old baby girl in the woods Wednesday afternoon was the newborn’s mother, according to KTRK. “The initial reportee is actually the one who had delivered the infant. She had reported the infant was found here. That was concocted. That was not accurate,” Harris …
For the latest in true crime and nationwide breaking crime news – subscribe to the CrimeOnline newsletter A 1-month-old baby found in a car on the side of an Oklahoma interstate had $5,000 cash and identification documents placed in his car seat, authorities confirm. NewsOK reports that a church youth group and their van driver spotted …
A woman abandoned as a baby in 1991 found her birth mother through Facebook using only a newborn photo of herself that aired on news stations in 1991, and a toddler’s shirt and bootie string found with her at birth. ABC 8 reports that Jamie Smith, known in 1991 only as a “Baby Jane,” was found …
Police said a newborn girl was left outside a Harris County, Texas, apartment building less than an hour after being born, according to Click2Houston. Neighbor Albert Peterson allegedly found the child Thursday morning while on the way to work. The man said he originally thought the noise he heard was a cat. “She was there …
Police are seeking information about an infant found with her umbilical cord still attached in a backpack at an Arizona grocery store last week. The newborn girl was discovered June 4 wrapped in a blanket inside a black and pink Jonas Brothers-themed backpack, which had been placed in a shopping cart in the parking lot …
