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'Miracle' forest baby: Montana man cries at arraignment, says he left infant because it was 'very heavy'
The man accused of leaving a 5-month-old baby in a Montana forest reportedly broke down crying when he heard allegations against him in court on Tuesday two days after a search team discovered the infant buried under a pile of sticks and debris.
From his jail cell, Francis Carlton Crowley, 32, appeared via videoconference in Missoula County Justice Court on Tuesday on charges of assault on a minor and criminal endangerment, according to the Associated Press.
As the judge and prosecutor read the allegations, Crowley doubled over and fell to the floor, the AP reported. He twice exclaimed that he loves the boy and pleaded with the judge not to take him away.
Image: Lolo hot springs babyA 5-month-old infant with dirt under their fingernails after authorities say the baby survived hours being buried under sticks and debris in the woods on July 8, 2018.Missoula County Sheriff's Office via AP
Crowley did not enter a plea. His relationship to the child and the identity of the boy's mother were still not clear.
He told investigators he had been in a car crash and left the baby behind because the child was "very heavy," prosecutors said in an affidavit obtained by NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/miracle-forest-baby-montana-man-cries-arraignment-says-he-left-n890346
suprcali
(108 posts)What kind of scum abandons a baby in the forest???
Demovictory9
(32,323 posts)MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)the rescue of this little one. I so hope hes safe from now on. This could have ended so differently. I question whether his mother should get him back but I guess the facts arent all in yet.
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)so i put him under a pile of leaves and sticks."
humans.
Laffy Kat
(16,354 posts)Demovictory9
(32,323 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)but it is never mentioned
irisblue
(32,829 posts)..." potentially under the influence of drugs, so ultimately could not help, prosecutors wrote."
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)Because this sounds like attempted murder to me.
Baitball Blogger
(46,575 posts)El Salvador.