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Police trying to ID (abandoned)baby's mother(daughter of Tarrant Co. judge, lives with judge)
Fort Worth star telegram ^ | 11/20/03 | Domingo Ramirez Jr.

Posted on 11/20/2003 6:38:34 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat

HURST - Crime scene investigators Wednesday combed through a car and a house on Louella Drive looking for clues leading to the mother of a newborn boy found inside a trash bin last week.

A tip and witness statements led them to a 24-year-old woman who lives at the house, police said.

The team of investigators arrived about 2 p.m. at the spacious 1-story brick house in the 400 block of Louella Drive. The house is about four blocks southwest of where the baby was found Friday morning inside two plastic bags.

The baby, temporarily named John Doe, remained in fair condition Wednesday at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth. At a hearing Monday, Child Protective Services was granted temporary custody of the boy once he is released from the hospital.

The 24-year-old woman and her mother, whom police did not identify, were in the house Wednesday evening as crime scene investigators searched a Toyota Camry parked on the street beside the house for evidence. The women declined to talk to investigators, police said.

A woman who answered the telephone at the house declined to comment.

Investigators were scheduled to spend most of the night combing through the house for evidence, police said.

"The search warrant is for any evidence of a birth," Hurst police Sgt. Craig Teague said. "That includes DNA."

Investigators were expected to take tissue samples from inside the 24-year-old's mouth, police said. The samples would then be compared to the baby's DNA, Teague said.

No arrests were expected Wednesday night, Teague said. But the search warrant affidavit signed by state District Judge Bob Gill carries a charge of abandoning a child, a second-degree felony, authorities said.

Police first received a tip about the woman Monday, and then other witnesses came forward, Teague said.

Several neighbors expressed shock Wednesday night that the younger woman may have been the mother of the infant.

"I saw her a few weeks ago, and she didn't look like she was expecting a baby," neighbor Helen Holt said. "Both of them were pretty quiet."

Neighbor Michael Discoe said he noticed an unusual bag in front of the 24-year-old's house on trash day.

"I was taking my garbage out Friday or Tuesday, and I saw what looked like a Pampers plastic bag out for their garbage," Discoe said. "I thought it was strange because I had never seen any kids over there."

The baby boy was found about 9 a.m. in a trash bin in the 100 block of East Harwood Road. Doctors believe the child was minutes old when Hurst veterinarian Lee Chenault and technician Katy Marquis of Metroplex Animal Clinic found the whimpering baby in the trash bin.

The infant was still covered with birth fluids when he was found, Hurst police said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abandonment; abortion; callous; coverup; impeachment; left2die
The 24-year old who tried to murder her newborn by abandonment lives with her mother, but what the article fails to mention(yet they clearly know) and is now being reported on radio is that the her mother is a TARRANT COUNTY JUDGE.

For those not from Texas, this is near Fort Worth. Right now it is very hard to believe that the judge didn't know that her daughter was pregnant, then suddenly not, on the same day that the baby was found in her neighborhood, and didn't suspect her daughter. It was others who gave the tip, the judge appears (for now) to have been at least complicit in not coming forward, perhaps worse.

1 posted on 11/20/2003 6:38:35 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
The statement that the 24-year old's mom was a judge was reported on KSCS-FM in their 8:00 headlines.
2 posted on 11/20/2003 6:42:04 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (www.firemackbrown.com, www.firecarlreese.com)
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What I don't understand is why she's not charged with attempted murder. I mean, she had no other goal than killing this baby. It was wrapped up in TWO tied-in-a-knot plastic bags. Just makes me sick.

I guess the pro-choice crowd could call this 'complete birth abortion.'
3 posted on 11/20/2003 6:44:17 AM PST by jtminton (2Timothy 4:2)
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She certainly is guilty of attempted murder, im from here and this just makes me sick. Put a baby up for adoption if you dont want it!

I hope the law comes down hard on here, and anyone else involved.

4 posted on 11/20/2003 6:55:28 AM PST by No Blue States
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But, couldn't doctors determine if she had just had a baby from a medical exam?
5 posted on 11/20/2003 7:30:37 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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I don't understand either. I mean, she HAD to have at least ONE friend. Somebody, at some point KNEW that she was pregnant. How is this lady going to explain that all of a sudden she's not and there is no baby? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
6 posted on 11/20/2003 8:04:33 AM PST by jtminton (2Timothy 4:2)
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Thank God she didn't think to suck the baby's brains out to beat the attempted murder wrap.

In the old movies, the mother would leave the baby in a Catholic church.
7 posted on 11/20/2003 8:43:17 AM PST by ragnarocker (Ragna rocks)
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You can do that at emergency rooms now. No questions asked. They really need to string her up for this. There is no excuse. There is absolutely nothing you can tell me that would make me think it was a good idea to put a baby in plastic bags and leave it in a dumpster.
8 posted on 11/20/2003 8:59:29 AM PST by jtminton (2Timothy 4:2)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
I am originally from Fort Worth and I am wondering what is going on there.
9 posted on 11/20/2003 11:06:05 AM PST by freekitty
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Have there been any follow-ups concerning this woman and her mother.

I've checked other media outlets and there is nothing about her mother being a judge.

10 posted on 11/20/2003 2:15:08 PM PST by writmeister
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Here's a new thread, on a new article in the Star-Telegram:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1027360/posts
11 posted on 11/22/2003 10:50:15 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat (www.firemackbrown.com, www.firecarlreese.com)
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