A woman has been charged
with murder after she gave birth at work and then allegedly tried to hide the
infant by shoving it inside her desk drawer.
She
then shoved the infant into a sealed plastic bag and concealed him inside her
desk for about 30 minutes.
But
police were called after concerned co-workers heard groaning in the bathroom
and discovered a pool of blood in the toilet cubicle.
Pappas
reportedly told police that she had suffered a miscarriage, but an autopsy declared
the baby’s death a murder – and determined that the infant had died from
suffocation shortly after birth.
Her defence attorney, Ray
Cassar, told the Detroit Free Press that she had been in therapy for
mental-health issues.
‘I
don’t think she understands what’s going on,’ he said.
Pappas
will undergo a psychiatric evaluation and returns to court in June to face
charges of murder and child abuse.
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