Friday, May 4, 2012
Authorities said the newborn nicknamed "Baby Chuck" in honor of the police officer who first identified the child was placed under the Missouri Department of Social Services.
A criminal hearing for Kaitlin T. Norton, the mother accused of abandoning her newborn son in Ellisville, was scheduled for this week. State legislation aimed at expanding Missouri's "safe haven law," meanwhile, targetting cases such as Norton's, may have lost the momentum needed for passage. Police said Norton, 19, left her newborn son in a wooded area between two homes on Westridge Parc Lane in February on the same day the child was born before later fleeing to a local hospital. If Norton is convicted in the abandondment case, she faces at least five years in prison before qualifying for parole and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report said. State legislation considered by lawmakers just days after the …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
New details emerge in the case of Wildwood resident Kaitlin T. Norton, who is accused of leaving her newborn baby in a yard in Ellisville.
New information in the case of Wildwood resident Kaitlin T. Norton, 19, who is accused of leaving her newborn son in a yard in Ellisville last month, was revealed in a recent article published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The article centered on a push last month by state lawmakers to expand the application of Missouri's "safe haven" law, which allows mothers to give up custody of a baby who is up to five days old if the baby is dropped off at a safe haven such as a fire house or hospital. One proposal considered by Jefferson City legislators sought to expand that window to 45 days, which is cited as a national average for comparable laws elsewhere. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch article by reporter Nancy Cambria also said the newborn boy …
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Police say the woman, 19 year-old Kaitlin T. Norton, has been charged but is not in police custody.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of Kaitlin T. Norton, 19, of Wildwood after she allegedly abandoned her newborn in a yard in Ellisville shortly after the boy's birth earlier this month, police said Tuesday. Norton, of the 700 block of Arbor Chase Drive in Wildwood, was charged with one count of child abandonment, a Class B Felony, and one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a Class C Felony. Bond was set at $40,000. The charges stem from an incident on Feb. 16 when police say Norton left her newborn son between two homes on Westridge Parc Lane in Ellisville sometime after giving birth, then checked herself in to a second hospital later that day. Police located Norton at the second hospital later that evening, and charges were …
dawn
9:12 am on Saturday, May 5, 2012
The Safe Haven law SHOULD be improved in many ways. 1) And not 45 days, but 30 days which is the norm for the rest of the country 2) SHOULD also mandate that this information be taught in Health Ed Classes 3) SHOULD require Safe Haven signs be posted at all Safe Haven facilities 4) SHOULD require that the State track statistics regarding the law more ›