Greenville Mother Indicted in Bi-Lo Baby Case

6:07 PM, Aug 22, 2012   |    comments
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A mother accused of abandoning her newborn infant in the toilet of a South Carolina sports arena has been indicted.
 
Prosecutors say the Greenville County Grand Jury indicted 25-year-old Jessica Blackham on charges of unlawful conduct toward a child and infliction of great bodily injury to a child.
 
Blackham was arrested in February 2011 after two workers at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville found a newborn baby boy up to his neck in toilet water and called 911.
 
The 6-pound baby survived and was placed in foster care. Blackham was arrested, and her parents told a judge she did not know she was pregnant and didn't remember giving birth.
 
Blackham also has another child.
 
No trial date has been set.