MO - Madison Baltzell-Pigg, 23, arrested for allegedly leaving daughter, 3, with stranger for ten months, father (ex) defends her, 12 Apr 2023

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Madison Baltzell-Pigg was arrested for allegedly abandoning a child with a no-return offense.
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According to court records, the father of the three-year-old victim made a missing person report on March 31st, 2023.

The father reported that he had not seen the victim for six months and had made multiple reports prior to this. The victim's mother, Baltzell-Pigg, had recently reached out to the father stating that she left the child in an "unknown persons care since September 2022."

Baltzell-Pigg provided fake names of the person she left the victim with to the Missing Person's Department. Baltzell-Pigg was found in St. Louis, Missouri, and said that she was on a bus and was sent there by "Kendra."

The affidavit states that Baltzell-Pigg said that she gave the victim to Kendra and was possibly staying with Kendra's father in San Antonio.

Officers went to the location at a hotel and the victim was not there. Baltzell-Pigg reiterated that she had not seen the child since September 2022.

The record states that when Baltzell-Pigg was being interviewed by the police in St. Louis, the victim's father received a call that the victim was on their way to be returned to him.

An unknown female returned the victim to the father at his house. The female shared that she had been caring for the child for "ten months."

The person that was in possession of the victim had no relation to the parents and admitted to not having communication with Baltzell-Pigg for five months.

Baltzell-Pigg was charged with a third-degree felony and her bond was set at $20,000.

The estranged husband of a woman who is accused of leaving their toddler with a stranger and then leaving town says San Antonio police have the story all wrong.

Dominic Baltzell-Pigg is speaking out after the arrest of his soon-to-be ex-wife.

Madison Baltzell-Pigg, 23, was charged Wednesday with abandoning a child.

An arrest warrant affidavit, written by police investigators, says Madison disappeared with the couple’s two-and-a-half-year-old daughter several months ago, then left the child with a stranger and boarded a bus for St. Louis.

The affidavit does not specify where the child was the whole time. However, it mentions that she suddenly was returned to her father by someone who the family did not know.

Dominic says despite the way things look, the affidavit does not tell the whole story.

“She was being held against her will and had my daughter taken away from her by a ring of these people,” he said. “They were using my daughter as a hostage to keep my wife in submission.”
 
I'm gonna wait for more info. Trafficking could be involved here. Wouldn't be the first case I've read about where a young woman's child was taken from her by someone in order to gain her compliance. But this could also be an example of a woman with drug and/or mental health issues who is not in possession of proper maternal instincts and dumped her kid somewhere to go gallivanting around unencumbered.

Hoping more info comes out so I know which way to lean.
 
I'm gonna wait for more info. Trafficking could be involved here. Wouldn't be the first case I've read about where a young woman's child was taken from her by someone in order to gain her compliance. But this could also be an example of a woman with drug and/or mental health issues who is not in possession of proper maternal instincts and dumped her kid somewhere to go gallivanting around unencumbered.

Hoping more info comes out so I know which way to lean.
By these people, Dominic said he was referring to a group of people, including a woman who his estranged wife met online soon after they broke up.

He said the woman initially made promises to the mother, but then she and others forced her into a life she did not want.

“She was being sized up and groomed,” he said. “She said she was moved to Austin. She said she had to be moved to California for a month and a half, and then Kansas City.”

While she was in St. Louis, Dominic said, the mother finally got the nerve to go to police for help.
A police investigator in a St. Louis suburb confirmed to KSAT that the mother reported being a victim of sex trafficking. Because KSAT’s policy is to not identify victims of sex trafficking, information that could identify her has been removed from this story.
 
Is it ok to post her Facebook page to this forum? Or should we wait to see how this pans out? Facebook reveals a ton about a person as we all know.
 
Is it ok to post her Facebook page to this forum? Or should we wait to see how this pans out? Facebook reveals a ton about a person as we all know.

Welcome to Websleuths!

Per Terms of Service -- skip the Facebook page. (Rest assured other posters are looking there. ;) )

Unless it is a page set up by family about a missing person, that sort can be quoted & linked.
 
Without benefit of hearing from the other side I can kinda believe something along those lines. I hope the little one was not harmed.
 

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