TX Woman Arrested; Abandoned Newborn To Die 23 Years Ago

[Sugar Cookie]

On November 18, 2001 a deceased infant was found in a Johnson County, Texas, cow pasture.

The girl was named Angel Baby Doe.

Twenty-three years later a Texas woman has been identified as the person that abandoned and left Baby Doe to die alone in that pasture.

DNA linked Shelby Stotts to this monstrous act.

Stotts has been charged with manslaughter

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Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Secures Indictment Against Mother of Newborn Baby Abandoned 23 Years Ago

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Office of the Attorney General’s (“OAG”) Missing Persons and Cold Case Unit have secured the indictment of Shelby Stotts for 2nd-degree manslaughter.

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

 

[cubby]

Very punchable face.

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

On a Reddit thread someone who knows the family said her oldest daughter was born in 2000, this baby was born a year later. She’s also a high school teacher but was fired after her arrest

 

[Taishobee]

I wonder why she did it when she kept the older one?

 

[Josh P]

I wonder why she did it when she kept the older one?

One kid is probably all she wanted to raise.

 

[runninfawn]

One kid is probably all she wanted to raise.

i understand that people do have limits on how many kids they can or want to raise but what was wrong in giving the new born up for adoption? .. someone would have loved and cherished that baby

 

[Josh P]

i understand that people do have limits on how many kids they can or want to raise but what was wrong in giving the new born up for adoption? .. someone would have loved and cherished that baby

Who knows? Safe haven laws have been around for a really long time. Drop the baby off at a fire station no questions asked. People do stupid things all the time, maybe a lack of knowledge?

 

[runninfawn]

Who knows? Safe haven laws have been around for a really long time. Drop the baby off at a fire station no questions asked. People do stupid things all the time, maybe a lack of knowledge?

heck children protection services even private adoptions has be around for well at least 58 years so no excuses .. it takes a cruel heartless person to leave your baby in a field to die makes me wonder how she explain not being pregnant anymore even if she did hid it ... and if she hid being pregnant so well that nobody suspected it it would have been so easy to put it up for adoption with child protection, private adoption or save havens but she chose to leave it to die in a place where she was pretty darn sure her baby wouldn't be found alive ...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

February 5, 2026

The woman charged in connection with the death of a newborn baby whose body was found 24 years ago in a ditch in Johnson County has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, officials announced Thursday.

Shelby Ann Stotts, of Covington, pled guilty on Monday to manslaughter. On Thursday, a jury sentenced her to the maximum allowable sentence of 20 years in prison.

"After 24 years, 2 months, 18 days, 4 hours, and 10 minutes, justice was finally done on behalf of the infant girl whom this community named 'Angel Baby Doe,'" Johnson County District Attorney Timothy Good said in a statement.

Good said the baby's biological father was not aware that Stotts was even pregnant with the baby and only learned about the child 2 years ago. He gave an impact statement in which he named the child "Taryn Angel Moreno."

North Texas woman sentenced to 20 years in "Angel Baby Doe" cold case, 24 years later

The woman charged in connection with the death of a newborn baby whose body was found 24 years ago in a ditch in Johnson County has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, officials announced Thursday.

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