Melissa Kelley approached a home in Deltona Sunday night and rang the doorbell multiple times. A woman opened the door and was greeted by Kelley with her 3-month-old son in a car seat, according to a sheriff’s office report.
The woman says on the call that Kelley pushed the baby in the door before leaving him in the house on the ground. According to a report, Kelley told the woman not to touch the infant as he was infected with scabies. Kelley said she could no longer care for the child and that his dad would get him.
The woman told authorities the baby was abandoned with a soiled diaper, half a can of powdered baby formula and an empty baby bottle along with two soiled baby towels, the incident report reads.
The woman says she tried to get in contact with the baby’s father, who is dating her daughter, who authorities identified as 28-year-old Clayton Zinck . After not answering multiple calls, the woman called Zinck’s parents who told her they would not wake up Zinck to inform him of the incident nor were they going to take the child, sheriff’s office documents read.
Kelley is now facing charges of unlawful desertion of a child and neglect of a child.
The infant is now under the custody of the Department of Children and Families.
Mom abandons infant at stranger’s door in Deltona, authorities say
A mom is now facing child neglect charges after authorities say she abandoned her child at a stranger’s house Sunday.
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