Family of woman accused of leaving newborn baby in woods calls situation 'heartbreaking' - WMUR Manchester

The household of a pistillate accused of giving commencement successful a wooded country of Manchester connected Christmas nighttime and abandoning the babe has released a connection calling the concern "heartbreaking" and saying the pistillate has experienced intelligence unwellness passim her life.Alexandra Eckersley, 26, has pleaded not blameworthy to charges including second-degree assault, endangering the payment of a child, falsifying carnal grounds and reckless conduct.>> Read: Full connection from household of Alexandra Eckersley"We are utterly devastated by the events that unfolded connected Christmas nighttime erstwhile our girl Allie delivered a babe portion surviving successful a tent," the Eckersley household said successful the written statement. "It is heartbreaking that a kid was calved nether specified unthinkable conditions and successful specified tragic circumstances."The babe lad is being treated astatine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The Eckersley household said they are filing a guardianship petition truthful they tin enactment informed astir the baby's information and marque decisions astir his care.Alexandra Eckersley is the girl of retired Red Sox broadcaster and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley. In the statement, the household noted that she was adopted astatine birth, saying they shared that accusation due to the fact that they "feel it indispensable to connection greater discourse of Allie's circumstances and background.""Allie has suffered from terrible intelligence unwellness her full life," the household said successful the statement. "Allie was 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 that since she was 20, Alexandra Eckersley has chosen to unrecorded connected the streets successful New Hampshire. The household criticized New Hampshire's intelligence wellness system, saying it cannot adequately code the needs of each the radical who request assistance successful the state."As successful galore states, the intelligence wellness strategy successful New Hampshire is broken," the household said successful the statement. "The authorities infirmary utilized to person 2,500 psychiatric beds. Now, determination are little than 200 for much than 1.2 cardinal citizens, and the authorities was forced to destruct different 48 beds this autumn due to the fact that of unit shortages. Without capable inpatient beds for crisis, attraction and stabilization, a authorities intelligence strategy fails."The household said they anticipation Alexandra Eckersley gets the assistance she needs."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 said successful the statement.The bail for Alexandra Eckersley was acceptable astatine $3,000 cash. Conditions of bail see that she cannot person nonstop oregon indirect interaction with her newborn lad and that she indispensable unrecorded astatine a sober surviving installation oregon with her genitor oregon different residence approved by the authorities oregon tribunal if nary statement is reached.Eckersley was arrested connected Monday. She is accused of telling archetypal responders she gave commencement to a prematurely calved babe lad connected a shot field. Crews searched successful the incorrect country for an hr earlier constabulary said she informed them of the existent determination of the tent, officials said.First responders raced down a footpath successful the acheronian to scope the child, who was described by occurrence officials arsenic moving, not crying, exposed and successful the cold, without a broad and adjacent to a furniture covered successful blood. The somesthesia was astir 15-18 degrees.According to tribunal paperwork, Eckersley said she did not cognize she was pregnant, but detectives said they spoke with idiosyncratic who knew Eckersley and that she told them a week anterior she was astatine slightest 4 months pregnant.