The daughter of an MLB Corridor of Fame pitcher is going through felony fees after she allegedly deserted her new child boy on Christmas night time after giving delivery.
Alexandra Eckersley, 26, was arrested early Monday morning after police in Manchester obtained a report of a lady who had delivered a child boy within the woods and left the kid within the chilly, in response to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB TV.
When officers, firefighters and American Medical Response personnel arrived on the scene, Eckersley allegedly instructed them to search for the tent the place she gave delivery. Nonetheless, Manchester Hearth District Chief John Starr instructed the station that the kid wasn’t discovered.
“The search was tough. It was darkish, we had chilly temperatures — about 18 levels final night time — and we weren't getting correct info,” Starr mentioned.
Manchester Hearth Chief Ryan Cashin instructed Boston Fox affiliate WFXT TV that the suspect gave a number of areas of the place the newborn could possibly be and couldn't bear in mind the newborn’s location.
“A number of totally different areas have been looked for the kid earlier than the mom lastly acknowledged the newborn was within the tent the place the mom was dwelling,” Cashin instructed the station.
When the newborn was lastly discovered, it was bare and struggling to breathe.
“As quickly because the child was picked up, members of our hearth division and American Medical Response acquired handed the newborn and instantly warmed the newborn as a lot as they may at the back of the fireplace truck and drove to the hospital,” Cashin mentioned.
Eckersley allegedly instructed EMTs that “she had no thought she was pregnant and that she felt she had to make use of the toilet,” in response to an affidavit.
She estimated that she gave delivery to the boy late on Christmas night time and reportedly instructed a detective she left him alone within the tent as a result of: “What do they inform you when a airplane goes down? Save your self first.”
In the identical affidavit, a Manchester police officer acknowledged that Eckersley gave the impression to be below the affect of medicine.
“The mom’s duty is to the kid, and that duty was undoubtedly uncared for,” Cashin mentioned. “There was no warmth supply within the tent by any means... She was not forthcoming, clearly, on the newborn’s location. She was very distressed, very elusive.”
Emergency medical technicians handled the boy, born prematurely at six months, earlier than transporting him to a neighborhood hospital. Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg mentioned on Monday the newborn boy was alive and bettering.
Eckersley was arraigned on Tuesday and pleaded not responsible to numerous felony fees, together with second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a kid, falsifying bodily proof and reckless conduct, in response to Manchester ABC affiliate WMUR-TV.
Prosecutor Carl Olson requested Eckersley be held on preventative detention, arguing that she was already out on bail for a separate endangering-the-welfare-of-a-child case out of Harmony and failed to look for an October court docket date in that case.
However Eckersley’s lawyer mentioned she ought to be launched on private recognizance bail, including that she referred to as 911 after the delivery reveals no proof of dangerousness.
Eckersley is the adopted daughter of former MLB pitcher Dennis Eckersley, who's within the Corridor of Fame for his work with the Oakland A’s and Boston Crimson Sox.
HuffPost reached out to him for remark, however he didn't instantly reply.
In 2019, he and his spouse, Nancy, instructed the Harmony Monitor that “Allie” was identified with psychological sickness on the age of two and mentioned her situation has “worsened significantly by way of the years, resulting in a number of hospitalizations and finally institutionalization.”
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