Middletown women claim harassment by police looking for mother of dead baby
Anne Warfield
Some say baby case now out of hand
Middleton women claim they're being harassed by police
March 27, 2004
By JAMES WASHBURN
of Copley News Service
MIDDLETOWN - The body of the baby boy found in a Middletown yard last
week was about one month premature, the coroner has said.
"It's not an exact science," Logan County Coroner Chuck Fricke said,
but facts seem to indicate the baby was born about four weeks
prematurely.
Fricke would not say whether the infant died from exposure after being
abandoned or due to violent means or another criminal act until he
receives pathologists' reports from the autopsy. The reports are
expected to arrive within the next two to three weeks.
Meanwhile, police continue to search for the infant's mother and
father.
A 23-year-old Middletown resident, who lives with her parents next
door to where the infant's body was discovered, says police came to
her place of employment while she was working Wednesday, asking her to
provide a sample of her DNA.
Jessica Daniels was willing to cooperate and even offered to release
her medical records at the Logan County Health Department, where she
had a pap smear test in December.
Daniels maintains she is not- and has not been - pregnant.
State police Special Agent Cynthia Robins told Daniels all she needed
was the DNA sample, which she obtained by wiping the inside of Daniels
cheek with a cotton swab.
Daniels said Robins told her she was collecting DNA samples from many
of the younger women in town.
"It's just getting ridiculous," Daniels said. "I wish they'd just
leave me alone.
I am sorry this had to happen, but it's not right to be harassed about
it."
No one would agree more than Shawn Nelson, who lives across the street
with his wife, LeeAnn, and 18-year-old daughter Martha.
Martha, he insisted, is not pregnant and was not pregnant.
"Yesterday (state police) talked with Martha," Nelson said. "They
pounded and pounded and pounded on the door. I told her not to answer
the door unless I was there.
"But she finally got tired of the pounding. They sat on the porch and
talked. They pushed her pretty hard. When I got home last night, she
was shaking in her shoes," Nelson said.
Daniels said police drive up and down the street slowly.
"I know they are doing their job, but they are going too far harassing
us," Daniels said. "I'm usually a quiet, home person. I'm usually at
home with my parents."
About six people in town have made "snide comments" toward her, such
as, "What'd you get rid of your kid for," she said.
"I'm not that type of person."
Funeral services for the infant will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday at
Middletown Bible Church.
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Anon
"Anne Warfield" <indi...@aolxxx.com> wrote in message
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> From the Peoria [IL] Journal Star--
>
> Some say baby case now out of hand
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> Middleton women claim they're being harassed by police
>
> March 27, 2004
>
> By JAMES WASHBURN
>
> of Copley News Service
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> MIDDLETOWN - The body of the baby boy found in a Middletown yard last
> week was about one month premature, the coroner has said.
>
> "It's not an exact science," Logan County Coroner Chuck Fricke said,
> but facts seem to indicate the baby was born about four weeks
> prematurely.
>
> Fricke would not say whether the infant died from exposure after being
> abandoned or due to violent means or another criminal act until he
> receives pathologists' reports from the autopsy. The reports are
> expected to arrive within the next two to three weeks.
>
> Meanwhile, police continue to search for the infant's mother and
> father.
>
> A 23-year-old Middletown resident, who lives with her parents next
> door to where the infant's body was discovered, says police came to
> her place of employment while she was working Wednesday, asking her to
> provide a sample of her DNA.
>
(snip)
This is outrageous. Does DNA (taken from the baby) indicate where the
mother lived? For that matter, does DNA taken from the baby indicate how
old the mother was? If the answer to both questions is NO, then why are
young women in Middletown being subjected to illegal searches of their
person? -Dave
Al 2048
>mother lived? For that matter, does DNA taken from the baby indicate how
>old the mother was? If the answer to both questions is NO, then why are
>young women in Middletown being subjected to illegal searches of their
>person? -Dave
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>
Aren't there any defense attorneys in Middletown, IL?
Regards,
Alex K.
Bo Raxo
"Al 2048" <al2...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Sure, the average 23 year old is going to spend thousands hiring a defense
attorney because the cops asked them for a cheek swab.
The papers are too delicate or politically correct to mention it, but the
issue is pretty obvious: think a minute, the cops are questioning women who
might have been pregnant without people knowing it. So that would
be...hugely fat women.
I'll refrain from the many, many jokes that come to mind.
But it isn't easy.
Bo Raxo
Threnody
wrote:
Bo, I don't want to come down too hard on you, but you really don't have
a clue what you're talking about here. Some women, especially younger
ones, can be "normal" sized (perhaps wearing a dress size of six to ten)
and be eight months pregnant (the assumed age of the fetus was 8 months,
I believe) and able to conceal their pregnancy by wearing untucked shirts
and baggy pants. The woman's original shape doesn't necessarily have to
be obese for her to successfully conceal a pregnancy.
ObPersonalAnecdote: I'm six months along and still wearing my pre-
pregnancy clothes, and I have big babies (9 lbs 12 oz for the first one,
and this one's already measuring a minimum 2 weeks early by ultrasound
femur measurements, which means it'll likely be 10 lbs plus -- all this
means I have babies almost twice the average size). I'm carrying low,
which doesn't affect my waistline much. Since I wear mostly cargo pants,
bib overalls, and cotton stretch pants with baggy or untucked shirts or
big sweaters in the winter months, I've only bought three maternity
items... blouses, because my chest got a bit more filled out. By
comparison, my last pregnancy began in the summer and I was in maternity
clothes by the ninth week.
--Threnody
Scorpi...@attnospam.net
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then why are
>young women in Middletown being subjected to illegal searches of
their
>person? -Dave
Uh Dave? What illegal search of their person?
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Like a game of pick up stick played by fucking lunatics
Bo Raxo
"Threnody" <dov...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94BB598A4...@24.93.44.119...
Are you insinuating that I don't have a lot of experience with pregnant
women?
Er, well, you're right, I don't have a clue when it comes to this subject.
I've gone to considerable effort to keep the women in my life from getting
knocked up ;)
Women who aren't fat and are 8 months pregnant can hide it with an untucked
shirt? I find this amazing, but if you say so, okay. Just seems like it
would look like she'd gained a bunch of weight (because, um, she had), but
I'll have to ask around about this one.
tinydancer
"Bo Raxo" <invasio...@thepentagon.removethis.com> wrote in message
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Depends upon the woman, how she's 'carrying', and how much the baby weighs.
Has very little to do with the actual weight of the mother.
td
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