A woman is facing charges after she allegedly gave her newborn to a stranger she encountered while walking down the street.
25-year-old Yessenia Cardenas is from Corpus Christi. She recently became the new mother of a daughter.
At approximately 10:30 PM on March 20, Cardenas was reportedly walking around with her child, who was 12-days old at the time.
A mother from Hialeah allegedly asphyxiated her 5-month-old daughter and shared a video of the incident with the baby’s father.
19-year-old Bryunna Joyce recently gave birth to a baby girl. She also has a 1-year-old. Joyce and the newborn’s father are no longer in a romantic relationship.
On June 6, Joyce and the baby’s dad had reportedly been arguing.
After the father of her child ended their relationship, the mother of a newborn reportedly ditched the baby at a stranger’s residence and ran away.
33-year-old Melissa Kelley lives in Astor, Florida, and she recently gave birth to a son.
Kelley and her son’s father ended their relationship, and the woman was reportedly very emotionally distressed over the breakup.
A Washington state woman allegedly used the guise of being a baby photographer in a purported attempt to kidnap a child, flee, and raise it as her own.
A woman who had recently given birth to a baby girl reported that she saw an advertisement in a Facebook group offering free baby photos free of charge in exchange for the shoot helping a new photographer establish her portfolio.
The woman said that the photographer came to her house a total of three times, and took selfies with her baby while she was there.
A 15-year-old girl has been accused of abandoning her newborn into a dumpster on a day that was recorded as reaching temperatures over 100 degrees.
On Tuesday, a teenage girl in Stockton gave birth to a 6-pound 7-ounce baby boy.
Just before noon, a man who lived in an apartment complex heard sounds resembling those of a crying baby or a kitten, and he believed they were coming from an area outside where a dumpster was located.
A woman in Orange County allegedly went to a new mother’s home and tried to take her baby under the false pretense that she was a social worker.
Late Friday morning in Santa Ana, a woman who recently gave birth was at home with her family.
Around 11:00 am, someone knocked at the door and the new mom answered.
The Orange County Criminal Lawyer Blog