SEATTLE — A Seattle woman will spend approximately four years in prison for exposing her newborn baby to drugs and allowing her to starve to death inside a homeless shelter in South Lake Union.
Ashlee “Montana” Creighton, 35, accepted a guilty plea to manslaughter in the first degree, which reduced the original charge of murder in the second degree.
According to court records, Creighton gave birth to the baby in May 2024 when she was living in the Civic Hotel, a former motel that was being operated as a low-barrier homeless shelter by CoLEAD…