An Idaho teen is behind bars after a useless child was present in a hospital drop-off field meant for the nameless give up of newborns.
Angel Newberry, 18, was arrested in Twin Falls greater than a month after medical officers discovered the useless child woman wrapped in a blanket along with her placenta nonetheless hooked up within the Secure Haven Child Field on the Grove Creek Medical Middle in Blackfoot, authorities introduced Friday.
“The Secure Haven Child Field is meant to securely and anonymously enable custodial mother and father to give up a new child underneath 30 days previous with out authorized repercussions, offered the kid is unhurt,” the Blackfoot Police Division stated in a social media submit.
“Sadly, the location of a harmed or deceased toddler just isn’t protected underneath the system of Idaho regulation.”
Hospital employees instantly responded to an alarm on Oct. 13 indicating a child had been positioned within the field — making the disturbing discovery that the new child had been useless lengthy earlier than she was deserted, in line with Secure Haven Child Bins.
Idaho regulation solely permits for the give up of an toddler who’s unhurt.
“We’re heartbroken,” Secure Haven Child Field founder Monica Kelsey stated final month.
“Let this be clear: that is an unlawful, lethal abandonment.”
The accused teen was charged with failing to report a demise to regulation enforcement officers and the coroner, police stated.
Extra prices may very well be filed because the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the child’s demise is ongoing.
She is being held at Bingham County Jail.
