MARYSVILLE — A Snohomish County judge has ordered a teenage girl from Mexico jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail after she was arrested for allegedly abandoning her newborn son Saturday night on the edge of a retention pond.
The boy was in satisfactory condition today at Providence Everett Medical Center, according to police. Neighbors found the baby after hearing cries from behind the fence at a retention pond in Marysville. The boy was inside a plastic garbage bag, umbilical cord still attached.
Police followed drops of blood to a nearby house, where they found the girl, 17. She was evaluated by a doctor, who confirmed that she had recently given birth, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor John Stansell said during a brief hearing today in the juvenile division of Snohomish County Superior Court.
The girl has been visiting the U.S. on a visa. She’d been staying with her sister and brother in-law in Marysville for about three months, Marysville police Cmdr. Ralph Krusey said.
The girl was arrested for investigation of child abandonment. Stansell asked that the girl be ordered jailed at the Denny Juvenile Justice Center, arguing that she could be a risk to flee back to Mexico. The father of the child also lives in Mexico, the judge was told.
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