No Charges: Homeless Seattle Female Arrested For Deceased Newborn Found In 2023 In Bushes

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A Ballard woman accused of leaving her baby for dead in a bush in February 2023 will stay behind bars, for now. The child’s mother faced a judge Wednesday afternoon who ruled she'll be held on $150,000 bail.

The 41-year-old woman was taken into custody Tuesday and told police she had delivered the baby near a railroad track in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood before abandoning it, according to an arrest report.

"The defendant did stay there with the child for about four to five hours and then left it in the bushes and boarded a bus. The defendant admitted to this. She also admitted that she did not seek medical attention," the prosecutor told the judge in court Wednesday.

In response, the defense argued the woman has no criminal history and cannot pay bail.

According to the police report, the 41-year-old woman gave birth to her child sometime in mid-February 2023.

The woman claimed she didn’t know she was pregnant and was riding a bike when she began having labor pains. She told police she went into the bushes near a railroad track on Shilshole Ave and delivered the baby.

According to investigators, the woman admitted she stayed with the baby for several hours and reported the child was “making noises.” The woman reported she left the child and took a bus to a man’s apartment.

On February 19, 2023, Seattle Animal Control received an online report in the “dead animal” portal. The report contained a photo of the child and the caption “dead baby abandoned in the bushes.”

The report was not seen by animal control staff until February 22 due to a holiday weekend. When the staff saw the report, police were immediately dispatched to the area and located the body of the child as described by the animal control report.

Police later questioned the man who made the report and he claimed he had stopped to use the bathroom after leaving the Ballard Sunday Market and he saw the body. He claimed he did not think it was an emergency because the child was obviously dead and he did not want to wait with his family for the police to respond to the scene, according to the police report.

Investigators took DNA from the infant, and it was matched to the boy’s father, who lives in a Seattle Housing Authority building in the University District of Seattle.

The father told police he had only had sex with one woman in the last six to seven years and he was unaware she was pregnant. He told investigators the woman was homeless and only came around to his apartment every once in a while, the report states.

Seattle mother arrested in connection to 2023 case involving dead infant found in bush

The 41-year-old woman told police she delivered the baby near a railroad track in Ballard before abandoning it, according to an arrest report.

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Seattle seems to be home to a bunch of degenerates bums

*except for my lovies here at the Den

 

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I'd like to beat the "mom's" ass, but I'd also throat punch the dude who reported the body. "He claimed he did not think it was an emergency because the child was obviously dead and he did not want to wait with his family for the police to respond to the scene." What the absolute fuck is wrong with people?!

Oh, just another dead baby. Moving along. Nothing amiss here. Geezus. People have no soul.

 

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The King County Medical Examiner’s Office said that maternal drug abuse and preterm birth were contributing factors to the baby’s death. However, they couldn’t determine if the child was stillborn or had taken a ‘breath of life.’

Mother arrested in 2023 death of newborn in Ballard

The mother says the baby made strange noises for 2-4 minutes.

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A mother who admitted to leaving her newborn baby in a bush near a railroad track in Seattle in 2023 will not face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Friday.

According to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, there is insufficient evidence to prove the baby was alive at the time of birth, or that a homicide occurred.

“Here, the only evidence that the baby was born alive comes from the woman’s statements that the baby made noise for a couple of minutes after he was born. Due to her mental state at the time her statement was made – including hearing voices, according to police investigators – it is difficult to determine how reliable her statements are. Regardless, the statement will not be admissible on charges of homicide because police and prosecutors do not have independent evidence that a homicide occurred, from the Medical Examiner’s report or otherwise,” prosecuting attorney’s spokesperson Casey McNerthney told KOMO News in a statement.

Seattle police arrested the 41-year-old woman last week after more than a year of investigation.

According to an arrest report, the woman claimed she did not know she was pregnant and went into labor while riding a bike along Shilshole Avenue in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.

Prosecutors decline charges against Seattle mother of infant found dead in bush

A mother who admitted to leaving her newborn baby in a bush near a railroad track in Seattle in 2023 will not face criminal charges.

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