North Carolina woman threw 7-week-old daughter down 75-foot ravine, claimed she had been kidnapped: police

[The Good Democrats]

A North Carolina mother who allegedly tossed her 7-week-old
infant daughter down a large ravine now faces attempted murder
charges.

Krista Noelle Madden, 35, was charged with attempted murder and
held in the Henderson County jail on a $750,000 bond.

The baby girl, Shaylie, was found safe on Thursday evening
thanks to an unlikely set of circumstances.

A woman walked outside to check the mailbox and thought she
heard the faint cries of an infant. She brought her husband out
and he descended into what Henderson County Sheriff Lowell S.
Griffin called “a 75-foot ravine” where he found the baby and a
car seat.

“It’s by the grace of God that we’re standing here with a child
that’s been discovered and is alive,” Griffin said at a press
conference on Friday.

He believes the child was thrown into the ravine in the car seat
and rolled out after hitting the ground. The child is said to be
in “very good condition” now.

A police search for the Madden and the missing baby happened
earlier that evening when someone, who police said actually
believed the mother and daughter were kidnapped, called 911.

Investigators pinged Madden’s phone and found her car abandoned
on a remote road near a church. She approached responding
officers and told them she had been kidnapped, but she escaped
without her baby.

Officers took Madden in for questioning and determined that she
hadn’t been kidnapped based on information gathered at the scene
and during interviews. And after the baby was found, charges
were filed.

Madden made her first appearance in court on Friday morning.

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