‘She tried to leave in an Uber’: Mother abandons newborn after giving birth in Plano hospital parking lot

The Brief

  • Plano police found a pregnant woman in a hospital parking lot trying to leave in an Uber; she gave birth outside minutes later.
  • Officers and hospital staff helped deliver the baby and transported both to the NICU, where doctors said the newborn most likely wouldn’t have survived if she had left.
  • The next day, the mother abandoned the baby at the hospital and CPS took custody of the newborn.

PLANO, Texas A woman gave birth in the parking lot of a Plano hospital after refusing to go inside, then abandoned the baby in the NICU, according to police.

What we know:

Plano police responded to a welfare call at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Plano on March 15. Officers found a pregnant woman in the hospital’s parking lot who was “experiencing a medical emergency,” police said in a statement.

The backstory:

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