You know what? It really doesn’t matter. I found some other news articles with different information - the mother died before the investigation was reopened, she can’t be charged etc..have no idea how they learned her identity. The biological father used the name Hope because that is the name the community gave the baby for a burial and service..so that answered that.
Sad story but certainly thousands more like it in our world and we can’t know all the facts about each and every one of them. I refuse to give in to my curiosity - LOL - I’m just curious about things that don’t make sense. I just want details not the WHY someone did something....we have those answers..it’s because some people are just plain goofy!
Most articles today are not written well. In this one, the mother’s name is spelled two different ways.
But the police don’t seem to know much more than what’s been reported. They are still investigating the case.
The article below says she was married at that time in 1994. She would’ve been about 31 years old then. It doesn’t mention how long she’d been married by that point, but her “then-husband” was not the father.