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Woman Who Left Newborn In Freezing Woods Claims She Thought Baby Was Dead
A 27-year-old mother who gave birth in the woods and abandoned her baby in the bitter cold said in court that she thought he had passed away after birth.
Alexandra Eckersley gave birth to her son on December 25, 2022, in New Hampshire, USA.
Eckersley and her 45-year-old partner; George Theberge were camping in the woods at the time because she was homeless. She is accused of violence, careless behavior, faking evidence, and jeopardizing the welfare of a kid. She entered a not-guilty plea to every allegation.
According to News Center Maine, her defense attorney; Jordan Strand, informed the court that Eckersley was unaware of her pregnancy because of her troubles with substance abuse and mental health issues at the time.
“She was in a heightened emotional state, not thinking clearly, and suffering from symptoms of her bipolar disorder, a condition she was diagnosed with as a child,” Strand was quoted as saying.”
The publication reported that Strand further told the court that there was no cellphone service in the woods, and Eckersley walked to a location where she could make a call. It was reported that on her way, Eckersley experienced afterbirth but thought she had delivered a second child.
When she called emergency services, she told 911 that she had given birth to two children—one who lived for less than a minute and the other who died immediately.
The prosecution is insisting that Eckersley intentionally abandoned her newborn to perish in the bitter cold, claiming that she neglected to notify the rescue personnel that the child was still alive at the time of delivery. She revealed to them, for the first time, that the baby was crying when she gave birth, over an hour after giving birth.
Prosecutor Alexander Gatzoulis was cited as saying, “This completely changed the landscape of the search and increased everyone’s urgency because now they were looking for a baby, and not a corpse.”
Eventually, Eckersley guided authorities to the tent where the infant was discovered, still alive but cold, bluish, and covered in blood.
The baby weighed about two kilograms, according to a nurse who attended to him when he first arrived at the hospital. She made this revelation to the court on Monday. According to the nurse’s testimony, the infant was covered in dirt and blood and had floppy arms and legs when he was brought to the hospital. In her testimony, the first responder stated, “She had him in her hand and was performing one-handed compressions while walking into the trauma bay.”
The trial is still ongoing at the time of filing this report.
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