Eckersley family 'utterly devastated' after daughter gives birth in woods, misleads investigators - WCVB Boston

The household of a pistillate accused of initially misleading New Hampshire archetypal responders astir the determination of a babe she delivered successful a frigid structure successful the woods says successful a connection they are "utterly devastated" and grateful for those who saved the "innocent newborn boy."“We are utterly devastated by the events that unfolded connected Christmas nighttime erstwhile our girl Allie delivered a babe portion surviving successful a tent. It is heartbreaking that a kid was calved nether specified unthinkable conditions and successful specified tragic circumstances,” the household of Alexandra Eckersley, 26, said successful a statement. “We learned with everyone other from quality reports what happened and are inactive successful implicit shock. We had nary anterior cognition of Allie’s pregnancy.”Eckersley is the girl of MLB Hall of Famer and erstwhile Boston Red Sox broadcaster Dennis Eckersley.The Eckersley household said the pistillate has “suffered from terrible intelligence unwellness her full life” and she has been “hospitalized galore times for her unwellness and lived successful respective residential programs.”“We did our precise champion to get Allie each of the assistance and enactment humanly possible,” the household said.The household said she “chose to unrecorded connected the streets successful New Hampshire” since she was 20. “We anticipation Allie present accepts the attraction she desperately needs for her intelligence wellness issues. We besides anticipation that each those who person heard this tragic communicative withhold judgement astir our girl until each the facts travel out,” the household connection said. The household said they were successful the process of filing a guardianship petition to beryllium progressive successful making decisions for the infant. Eckersley was charged earlier this week with endangering the payment of a child, reckless conduct, second-degree battle with utmost indifference and falsifying carnal evidence.According to police, Manchester officers responded to the country of the West Side Arena astatine astir 12:40 a.m. Monday aft receiving a study of a pistillate who had delivered a babe successful the woods successful that area. When archetypal responders arrived, investigators said Eckersley was not truthful astir the determination of the child. "The hunt was difficult. It was dark, we had acold temperatures — astir 18 degrees past nighttime — and we were not getting close information," Manchester Fire District Chief John Starr said.Police said that aft astir an hr of searching successful bitter acold temperatures, Eckersley yet led officers to a structure wherever they recovered the babe bare and alone, and suffering from hypothermia. According to an affidavit, Eckersley told constabulary she did not cognize she was large and admitted to utilizing cocaine, marijuana and cigarettes successful the days earlier the baby's birth.The newborn was treated by exigency aesculapian technicians earlier being taken to a infirmary for further treatment. Investigators said the babe was calved prematurely and weighed conscionable 4 pounds."There's nary excuse for this," Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said. "If you take to unrecorded successful the woods and take to unrecorded your beingness a peculiar way, and you don't privation to judge our outreach that goes each time successful this metropolis — and you privation to unrecorded retired determination and bash that with your beingness — fine. But you don't get to bash this, what we're alleging here. You don't get to bash this to a child."New Hampshire does person a Safe Haven Law. Babies up to 7 days aged tin beryllium near astatine immoderate occurrence station, hospital, constabulary presumption oregon church, which covers immoderate location of worship registered with the authorities wherever idiosyncratic is contiguous to person the kid with nary questions asked.