CA - Jessie Canfield, 24, charged in death of newborn, Redondo Beach, 3 March 2010

[Blue_Dolphin308]

A 24-year-old California woman who is accused of dumping her newborn girl in a trash bin told police that she didn't know she was having a baby.

Jessie Canfield was arrested Wednesday, hours after trash collectors found the newborn's naked body in an overstuffed bin outside a Redondo Beach home where she had been attending a party.

Canfield had attended a surprise birthday party with family and friends at the home, before ducking into a bedroom for several hours and giving birth, police Lt. Joe Hoffman said.

"She's saying that she didn't know" she was having a baby, and she appeared "distraught over a tragic situation," Hoffman said.

The baby was found just blocks from a fire station where unwanted babies can be surrendered

http://cbs3.com/topstories/Newborn.Baby.Dead.2.1541795.html

 

[LogicalMinds]

Sad...but it is also sad that news reporting has turned into a joke

who what where why when......

that article does not even say if the baby is alive or dead, does not say if the "bio mothere" is arrested.....nothing...

at some point I have to wonder who is behind these news stories?? What is wrong with them??

 

[not_my_kids]

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14520102

SHe must have been arrested, since this says she was released. The ME hasn't called it a homicide, could take three weeks for that determination, so she'll be out at least until then...makes me sick. Nothing mentioned here about the baby's status at birth, but she was 6 pounds, so "Mother" must have been close to term, if not at term.

ETA: I think she looks disturbingly like casey A did in her mug shot.

 

[kbl8201]

isnt there anything they can hold her on even without a cod?

 

[not_my_kids]

isnt there anything they can hold her on even without a cod?

Not really. At least not without a manner of death. Abuse of a corpse, they have to know the baby was dead. For abandonment or murder, they have to know the baby was alive.
I love our laws...

 

[kbl8201]

Not really. At least not without a manner of death. Abuse of a corpse, they have to know the baby was dead. For abandonment or murder, they have to know the baby was alive.
I love our laws...

great, so she can catch a flight to zimbowea if she wants

 

[not_my_kids]

Actually, now that I think about it, failure to report a birth may be a crime...but I think it's only a misdemeanor...
I don't think the law prepared for what to do to hold a mother in jail after leaving her baby in a trash can and refusing to tell the police whether the child was alive or dead. (I'm assuming there, since the articles that I have seen have said that LE isn't sure, so I am assuming she's not talking about that aspect.)

 

[kbl8201]

oh i bet she's not talking about that aspect. at the least, if the baby was born stillborn, or died shortly after birth, she is feelling guilt over that.

if she left a healthy, live baby, in a dumpster, she's protecting herself from a murdeer charge

 

[not_my_kids]

oh i bet she's not talking about that aspect. at the least, if the baby was born stillborn, or died shortly after birth, she is feelling guilt over that.

if she left a healthy, live baby, in a dumpster, she's protecting herself from a murdeer charge

You mean,if she left a healthy live baby buried under trash in a nearby garbage can...not that it really matters, but let's call a spade a spade. A dumpster would have required her to look for it and at least think about the baby for longer.

I can't believe how no one found it odd at the time that she disappeared into the bathroom for a few hours. I'm thinking house party, likely only one or two bathrooms in the house, so how did no one raise some kind of alarm when she was hogging one to herself for hours on end.

 

[kbl8201]

probably the same reason she didnt know she was pregnent

too much drugs to realize what was going on?

 

[Rayemonde]

May 2010:

A newborn girl found in a trash can outside a Redondo Beach house in March was asphyxiated, and her death has been deemed a homicide, coroner's officials said Thursday.

The finding could soon lead to a determination on whether her 24-year-old mother, Jessie Canfield, will be prosecuted for murder.

"What that tells us is the baby was born alive," Redondo Beach police Lt. Joe Hoffman said

http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-...-beach-trash-can-babys-death-ruled-a-homicide