The child she claimed to have found was in fact her own. Now yesterday’s apparent guardian angel is in the custody of the state.

The woman, an Alex mother of four, turned a newborn over to Lindsay hospital yesterday morning, Sept. 26, around 8:30 a.m., claiming she found the child wrapped in towels along Hwy. 19 between Bradley and Lindsay.

The child was then flown to Children’s Hospital for further evaluation. Grady County Undersheriff Irene Perske said the child was determined to be unharmed and a happy newborn baby girl. As the location given by the woman was about half a mile inside the Grady County limits, Deputy Investigator Terry Alexander was assigned to work the case and find the parents.

Shortly before 6 p.m., however, the woman confessed that the child was her own, said Perske. Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen said Alexander later interviewed the father. The father reportedly was unaware the woman had been pregnant but said he would fight for custody of the child.

What will happen to the child, who is still listed as Baby Jane Doe, will now be up to the courts.

The child is not the only member of the family to be in protective custody.

After the county had finished its investigation, Sheriff McMullen said Alex Police later got a call that the woman had become a threat to herself.

McMullen said the woman was placed into emergency custody and transported to St. Anthony’s Hospital for a mental evaluation.

Currently no charges have been filed in the case, although Assistant District Attorney Leah Edwards said there is the potential for a charge of filing a false report. Edwards said she had not yet seen the report from the sheriff’s office but that she expected it this afternoon.

Source: Chickasha Express-Star