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Alexandra Eckersley was found guilty of three charges related to the abandonment of her newborn infant but acquitted of two felony charges accusing her of second-degree assault.
After deliberating eight hours over two days, a Hillsborough County Superior Court North jury on Thursday left the courthouse without returning a verdict in the case of a woman accused of abandoning her premature newborn in freezing temperatures in December 2022.
Alexandra Eckersley testified Wednesday that when she left a makeshift tent after giving premature birth the day after Christmas 2022, she didn’t bring the infant with her because “I thought he was dead.”
After 2 ½ days of testimony, prosecutors rested their case against Alexandra Eckersley, the formerly homeless woman accused of abandoning her newborn son in 15-degree weather after giving birth to him in a makeshift tent in the woods.
Nineteen months ago, Alexandra Eckersley, 27, misdirected emergency workers searching for her newborn son, who she is accused of abandoning in a makeshift tent in temperatures hovering around 15 degrees, because she was afraid she would get in trouble, according to prosecutors.
Scott Hartford, a self-described outspoken liberal Democrat, said he has lost his job because Alderman At-Large Joe Kelly Levasseur targeted him on Facebook for a snarky social post Hartford made shortly after a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear in an assassination attempt on Saturday.
An 18-year-old is facing seven charges in connection to an incident in which a porta-potty was tipped over while a mother and her 4-year-old daughter were inside it.
The grand jury handed up 272 indictments for May.
Sally Dreckmann, accused of lacing children’s food and infant formula with melatonin so they would sleep, was operating an illegal day care center in her home, tending to 15 to 25 children daily, according to court records. The children, employees told an investigator, would nap for two to three hours after eating giving the workers a break.
Dr. Adnan S. Khan, 48, of Grantham owned New England Medicine and Counseling Associates (NEMCA) with locations in Grantham, Manchester, Newport and Rochester, and two others in Rutland and Colchester,Vermont.