The case of an abandoned newborn who died ran cold for 23 years. Texas authorities just charged her mother with manslaughter
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A newborn baby girl who was abandoned in a Texas ditch and left to die went unidentified for 23 years until authorities say they recently identified and charged her mother.
A newborn baby girl who was abandoned in a Texas ditch and left to die went unidentified for 23 years until authorities say they recently identified and charged her mother. The infant has been referred to as “Angel Baby Doe” by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office since her body was discovered on November 18, 2001. The child was found wrapped in a jacket with her umbilical cord still attached off the side of a road between the towns of Alvarado and Burleson, Texas, south of Fort Worth, the Texas Attorney General’s Office said in a news release Monday. Authorities say she was born alive and likely outside of a medical facility. A person living in the area found the baby as they picked up cans along the side of the road, according to the release. The child died after authorities say the mother, later identified in September 2023 through DNA samples as Shelby Stotts, failed to receive prompt medical care after giving birth and failing to clamp the child’s umbilical cord, which “caused the child to bleed to death,” the attorney general’s office stated.
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