Murder charge dropped against Fla. mother whose baby was thrown in trash

(CBS/WFOR) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday against a Florida woman accused of killing her baby and throwing her body away.

In July 2007, Lindsey Scott, 27, was charged in the death of her baby girl, whose body was put in a bag and thrown in a trash can. But now experts say the child may have died during the birthing process, reports CBS Miami.

According to the Broward State Attorney's close-out memo, three doctors "felt this is a death that could have occurred during the birthing process and there was not enough evidence to state to any degree of medical certainty that it did not occur in that manner."

Instead of ruling it a homicide, prosecutors said the doctors decided, "They would have written this case up as an 'undetermined' manner of death."

CBS Miami reports that these findings contradict those of Dr. Reinhard Motte, the medical examiner who had originally testified that the child was alive after birth and ruled the death a homicide.

"(The prosecutor) looked at it and said this is a different case today than it was before and now she had a doubt as to whether or not it was a homicide," said Scott's defense attorney, David Bogenschutz.

Scott reportedly claimed the child was stillborn. She faced life in prison on the first-degree murder charge and has been out on a $100,000 bond since August 2007.