Docs: Woman arrested after giving birth and abandoning her baby in Vancouver

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — A woman abandoned her newborn baby for nearly an hour after giving birth in a van outside a Vancouver apartment complex.

According to court documents obtained by KATU, Vancouver police responded on the morning of May 12 to 911 calls about a woman giving birth outside the Meriwether Apartments at 6221 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd.

A responding officer found a newborn girl inside a Ford Econoline van with the placenta still attached…

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