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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Woman Charged With Murder For Leaving Newborn To Die In Garage


The attorney for a Michigan woman whose newborn baby boy was found dead in a suburban Detroit recycling center said she 'did as well as she could' in caring for the child.

Angela Alexie, 24, of Eastpointe, allegedly delivered the baby on her own in the unattached garage of a friend's house where she was living.

Steven Kaplan, Alexie's attorney, said she has a 'severe lack of parenting skills, limited intelligence and lack of family support' in court yesterday.

The boy, unofficially named Henry Alexander Macomb by morgue workers, 'must have suffered greatly' while left in the garage with low temperatures in the 30s, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said.  More