Mother of abandoned newborn girl charged with child neglect
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...