A Friend of Mother of Abandoned Baby Speaks
June 4, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Baby Care, Labor & Delivery, Missing Child, News & Media, Parenting
A male friend of the mother that abandoned her baby in a hotel room is speaking out on the mother’s behalf. He claims she did the right thing so she wouldn’t get arrested. Ummm, I’m still not convinced leaving the newborn is/was the right thing. You read what CBS3 found out:
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“I’m the one that gave birth to her baby. I was there from first to last and know she didn’t abandon the baby,” said Julio Reyes. He was with her when she gave birth to a baby girl Friday night at the Welcome Inn, in West Springfield.
“She left it with someone responsible, but I can’t say who.”
He says Anderson has been staying with him in Holyoke since just after she gave birth. Reyes says she didn’t go to police because she already had a warrant out for her arrest. “All I know is she did what was right for her not to get into trouble,” said Reyes. But it is not what was right for her newborn, as police charged her with infant abandonment and reckless endangerment. She did not resist when police arrested her Thursday morning. “Police came, knocked on the door, I thought it was a friend. I let them in and they arrested her.”
What do you think? Could the warrants have also prevented her from giving birth in a hospital? The baby is reportedly in good condition.
