Mother left newborn in car seat for 13 hours leading to positional asphyxia death: Prosecutor

Raeleigh Phillips

Raeleigh Phillips is accused of leaving her baby boy in a car seat for 13 hours. The baby died of positional asphyxia, Indiana prosecutors say. (Dearborn County Jail)

An Indiana mother is behind bars after her 9-day-old baby boy died when she allegedly left him in a car seat for 13 hours and didn’t feed him for 14 hours.

Raeleigh Phillips, 22, is charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death, a level one felony, and reckless homicide, Prosecutor Lynn Deddens of the 7th Judicial Circuit said Wednesday. The Lawrenceburg Police Department around 2:30 a.m. on March 3 responded to an apartment at 71 Bellaire Drive for a report of an unresponsive infant. Paramedics rushed the baby to the hospital where doctors officially pronounced him dead.

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