The trial of a mother facing a murder charge for allegedly abandoning infant continues

Attorneys delivered opening statements today in the trial of a 26-year-old who is accused of abandoning her daughter in a drainage pipe on General Electric’s Schenectady campus last year.

On March 10th, 2024 then-24-year-old Persia Nelson was found on GE’s Schenectady campus, claiming she didn’t know where her baby had gone.

That led multiple law enforcement agencies to engage in a search for Nelson’s nearly 11-month-old daughter, Halo Branton…

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