Wildwood Woman Pleads Guilty to Abandoning Baby

A Wildwood woman who abandoned her newborn in an Ellisville yard shortly after the boy’s birth has plead guilty to charges of child endangerment.

Kaitlin T. Norton, 21, admitted to the charges in St. Louis Circuit Court last Thursday. Her sentencing on one count of first-degree child endangerment is set for July 25.  

Warrants were issued for the arrest of Kaitlin T. Norton, 19, of Wildwood after she allegedly abandoned her newborn in a yard in Ellisville shortly after the boy's birth earlier this month.

The charges stem from an incident on Feb. 16, 2012, when police say Norton gave birth in the basement of a boyfriend’s home and later that day left her newborn son under a tree between two homes on Westridge Parc Lane in Ellisville.

Norton then checked herself in to a hospital, where she was located by police later that evening.

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