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Mother of abandoned newborn girl charged with child neglect

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The only remains of the birth of "Baby Willow" were washed away from an apartment complex parking lot Tuesday morning as distraught neighbors looked on. A day earlier Orlando police responded around 3 p.m. to Willow Bend Apartments after someone reported seeing a possible placenta in the parking lot. Homicide and crime- scene investigators determined "that a full term baby had been born and discarded," police said. Officers found the mother, 30-year-old Susan Richardson, on Monday but no baby. She only admitted to giving birth to the girl, according to police. Richardson was taken to the Orange County Jail on an aggravated child neglect charge Tuesday afternoon , police say. Police conducted an extensive search of the complex in the 4700 block of Silver Star Road near Evans High School — including inside Dumpsters and trash cans — with cadaver dogs and 14 trained searchers from the nonprofit support group Search and Rescue of Central Florida but came up emp...

Police take search efforts underground, still no sign of Baby Willow

ORLANDO, Fla. — After three days, Orlando police have yet to find any sign of Baby Willow. Investigators, along with city of Orlando crews searched sewer lines for any sign of the missing infant on Wednesday. Those searches and the reexamination of dumpsters from the Willow Bend Apartment Complex failed to yield any evidence, police said. Advertisement Related Content Officers were called to the Willow Bend Apartments , off Silver Star Road and Coast Line Drive , for a report of a placenta and afterbirth found in the parking lot Monday . Homicide and crime scene investigators arrived at the scene, and multiple teams of dogs and searchers canvassed the area, including every dumpster. They were ultimately unsuccessful in finding the baby, now dubbed "Baby Willow." According to a police report, bloody shoe prints led them to a home where neighbors said a pregnant woman lived . "We were consistently told how the female's pregnancy appeared to be nearly full term,...

Orlando woman accused of abandoning ‘Baby Willow’ pregnant again, officials say

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by: Janine Reyes Updated: Feb 24, 2017 - 6:11 PM ORLANDO, Fla. - The woman accused of abandoning her newborn child in February near Willow Bend Apartments in Orlando is once again pregnant, state officials said. Susan Richardson was the subject of a massive search after she gave birth to a baby girl at or near the Silver Star Road apartment complex . The girl was named “Baby Willow” by police, after the apartment complex where she was born. Timeline: The disappearance of Baby Willow She told investigators that she abandoned the baby, but couldn’t remember exactly where. A clerk at a 7-11 convenience store near Willow Bend Apartments said Richardson regularly stops by the business. Since she was released from jail in November after pleading guilty to charges of neglect and desertion, the clerk told Channel 9 that she had asked Richardson what happened to the child. “She says the baby’s in heaven,” Marjorie Lowe said. Richardson, who has been living with her longtime boyfriend Joh...