Dead Baby Was In Closet for 2 Months

Morgan Hite secretly delivered a baby boy in a neighbor's bathtub, then wrapped him in a garbage bag, put him in a plastic tote and shelved the container in a bedroom closet at her family's Grand Junction, Colo., home, according to a police affidavit made public Wednesday. The child's body remained hidden for two months before Hite's father and stepmother discovered the decomposing body wrapped in a bloody green towel, the affidavit says.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Wasilla woman is under arrest and being held for extradition to Colorado to answer murder charges in the death of her newborn. Morgan Hite, 22, is currently being held on a fugitive from justice warrant. But in Colorado she's accused of secretly giving birth in late February while visiting her parents. Colorado authorities claim she then placed the infant in a plastic bag inside a storage tote, which she hid in a bedroom closet. Hite returned to Alaska early last month.

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Rocky Mountain News
GRAND JUNCTION -- An Alaska woman stowed her newborn boy in a tote bag and left him to die in the closet of her parents' Grand Junction house after giving birth to the child, police said in her arrest affidavit. Police arrested 22-year-old Morgan Hite in Wasilla, Alaska on investigation of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death. Robert Kurtzman, a forensic pathologist, said the baby which was found dead more than two months after his birth had been born alive.

Posted by Editor at May 8, 2008 09:37 AM