Prosecutors: Boyfriend Pushed Mom Charged With Leaving Baby
PASADENA, Md. (WJZ) -- It's been nearly a week since a Curtis Bay woman is accused of abandoning her baby on a Pasadena roadside. Now the baby's father is facing charges.
Amy Yensi with this new development in the investigation.
The mother told prosecutors she drove away, leaving her baby behind, because she feared for her life.
A split second decision based on fear is why Sandra McClary says she drove off in a haste, leaving her six-week-old daughter alone on a dark Pasadena road.
McClary told prosecutors Cordell Lee Hall, her boyfriend and the child's father, assaulted her moments before she sped away in her van, abandoning the infant.
"We investigated that, and based on her claims, we filed charges against the other individual, the male, in reference to this domestic incident," said Lt. T.J. Smith, Anne Arundel County Police Department.
Little Angelique Patricia Morgan cries inconsolably in the 911 calls from stunned neighbors.
The baby girl was found strapped into a car carrier with her diaper bag just before midnight on July 4.
"The baby was just crying so hard," said one neighbor.
"It looked like it was a child in a carriage, and as I got closer, indeed, that's exactly what it was," said Bishop Raymond Showell, who found the baby.
McClary told officers she left her baby on the side of the road with Hall, but police found no proof of that in their investigation.
"She's the one that left as he had exited the car and was walking away at the time this incident occurred. So he may not have not even known that the child was left on the side of the road," said Lt. Smith.
McClary, who admitted to leaving the baby, is charged with neglect of a minor and reckless endangerment.
Officials say McClary did not call for help after the incident. She's being held on $500,000 bail.
McClary is also facing charges for her role in a string of robberies.
