Baby Shannon is FOUND ALIVE in a Cedar Box
Baby Shannon found ALIVE in a cedar box
Seven month old Shannon Lea Dedrick, who at just 11 pounds and 2 feet tall, was reported missing by her parents on October 31st. Four days later she was found in a locked 2-by-3 foot cedar chest hidden underneath her aunt/babysitter’s bed. Baby Shannon is believed to have been in the box for 12 hours before police found her.
Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock said “There was no bottle, just a blanket to cover her. She was healthy. She was just wide open and surprised.” Something else in the box with the baby was a box of baking soda to help cover the smell of the baby’s soiled diapers. Surprisingly, the baby is healthy.
To me, this story ”felt wrong” from the beginning. Why didn’t the parents ever interview on TV or plead for their child’s safe return? The actions of these parents, or lack there of, shows there was something seriously wrong in this home. Another thing that “felt wrong”, a 7 month old baby only weighing 11 pounds, there was definitely something wrong.
Police think Chrystina Lynn Mercer, the mother of Shannon, gave her daughter to the baby’s paternal aunt and babysitter, Susan Baker, a day before reporting her missing. Haddock said.
Both women have been charged with
***Interference of child custody.
***Making a false report of a missing child.
***Making a false report of a crime and contributing to the delinquency of a child.
Police have also charged separately,
***The mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, 25, with desertion of a child.
***The Aunt/Babysitter, Susan Elizabeth Baker, 50, with neglect of a child with aggravated circumstances and interference of child custody.
Baker’s husband was also in custody, but he was released without being charged, Haddock said.
Haddock offered no suspected motive.
Mother, Chrystina Mercer and Aunt/Babysitter, Susan Baker
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So glad they found her!
Какая фраза… супер, великолепная идея…
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