Woman charged after delivering baby in NH woods, misleading Manchester first responders, police say - WCVB Boston

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A pistillate is facing a felony complaint aft constabulary successful New Hampshire said she gave commencement to a babe successful a wooded country of Manchester and initially lied to archetypal responders astir the newborn's location.Manchester constabulary said 26-year-old Alexandra Eckersley is facing a number of felony reckless behaviour successful transportation with the incident, which happened soon aft midnight Monday.According to police, officers responded to the country of the West Side Arena astatine astir 12:40 a.m. aft receiving a study of a pistillate who had delivered a babe successful the woods successful that area.Manchester constabulary officers, firefighters and American Medical Response unit searched an country wherever the parent of the baby, identified arsenic Eckersley, directed them to look for a structure wherever she gave commencement to a boy. However, archetypal responders were incapable to find the newborn child.Police said that aft astir an hr of searching successful 18-degree temperatures, Eckersley revealed the existent determination of the babe and led officers to the tent. The officers did find the babe successful that tent, bare and alone.The newborn was treated by exigency aesculapian technicians earlier being transported to Catholic Medical Center for further treatment. At 3:30 p.m., Manchester constabulary Chief Allen Aldenberg said the babe lad is live and improving, and that helium is presently being treated astatine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center."There is nary excuse for this," Aldenberg said. "If you take to unrecorded successful the woods and take to unrecorded your beingness a peculiar mode and you take not to judge our outreach, fine. But you don't get to bash this to bash what we are alleging to a child."Eckersley was arrested connected an unrelated warrant retired of Concord District Court for endangering the payment of a kid and was subsequently charged with felony reckless conduct.Aldenberg said Eckersley was being treated astatine a Manchester infirmary arsenic of Monday afternoon. Once Eckersley is released from infirmary care, she volition beryllium arraigned connected those charges, according to the constabulary chief.

MANCHESTER, N.H. —

A pistillate is facing a felony complaint aft constabulary successful New Hampshire said she gave commencement to a babe successful a wooded country of Manchester and initially lied to archetypal responders astir the newborn's location.

Manchester constabulary said 26-year-old Alexandra Eckersley is facing a number of felony reckless behaviour successful transportation with the incident, which happened soon aft midnight Monday.

According to police, officers responded to the country of the West Side Arena astatine astir 12:40 a.m. aft receiving a study of a pistillate who had delivered a babe successful the woods successful that area.

Manchester constabulary officers, firefighters and American Medical Response unit searched an country wherever the parent of the baby, identified arsenic Eckersley, directed them to look for a structure wherever she gave commencement to a boy. However, archetypal responders were incapable to find the newborn child.

Police said that aft astir an hr of searching successful 18-degree temperatures, Eckersley revealed the existent determination of the babe and led officers to the tent. The officers did find the babe successful that tent, bare and alone.

The newborn was treated by exigency aesculapian technicians earlier being transported to Catholic Medical Center for further treatment. At 3:30 p.m., Manchester constabulary Chief Allen Aldenberg said the babe lad is live and improving, and that helium is presently being treated astatine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

"There is nary excuse for this," Aldenberg said. "If you take to unrecorded successful the woods and take to unrecorded your beingness a peculiar mode and you take not to judge our outreach, fine. But you don't get to bash this to bash what we are alleging to a child."

Alexandra Eckersley

Manchester Police Dept.

Alexandra Eckersley, 26, of New Hampshire

Eckersley was arrested connected an unrelated warrant retired of Concord District Court for endangering the payment of a kid and was subsequently charged with felony reckless conduct.

Aldenberg said Eckersley was being treated astatine a Manchester infirmary arsenic of Monday afternoon. Once Eckersley is released from infirmary care, she volition beryllium arraigned connected those charges, according to the constabulary chief.

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