Mother Of Abandoned Infant Won’t Face Charges
DELAWARE, Ohio — No criminal charges were to be filed against a mother who abandoned her baby boy at the Lewis Center Meijer in June 2009.
NBC 4 reported with information from our media partner The Delaware Gazette.
The Delaware County sheriff’s office positively identified the mother of the newborn baby who was found abandoned June 9 late last month.
The office referred the case to the city prosecutor to determine what, if any, charges the woman would face.
City prosecutor Peter Ruffing called the case a “unique situation.“
“I have reviewed the applicable laws and tried to determine not only the letter of them, but also their spirit and intent. Based on these considerations, it is my recommendation that no criminal charges be filed in the case,” Ruffing wrote in a memorandum to Sheriff Walter L. Davis III Monday.
Authorities were not releasing the mother’s name as she wasn’t charged with a crime.
The abandoned child, whom the county named Thomas Benjamin Lewis, has been in foster care since shortly after he was found by a passing motorist.
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I thought the State of Ohio passed a law where they have drop off places for parent’s that don’t want their kids? IF you don’t use those outlets shouldn’t she be charged with child endangerment??????????? SOMETHING??? The state finds you guilty if your child is not in a car seat for God sake and this girl gets nothing????
The county named the baby…I don’t think the mother wants the little boy back.
So is the child going to be returned to the mother? Will she be required to at least get some couseling? Way to report, NBC4. This woman should be sterilized so as to prevent her from breeding again.
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