Authorities reported today (Monday, July 28), that a 14-year-old girl from Butterfield who was hospitalized soon after a newborn was found dead in a lower-level duplex apartment in the city is the baby’s mother, and that she had delivered the baby at the residences within a few hours of calling 911.
According to the Associated Press and the Watonwan County Sheriff’s Office, the baby girl was discovered by emergency responders late Friday afternoon, July 25, in the apartment.
The newborn was taken to the Ramsey County medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of death. The mother was taken Friday evening first to St. James Mayo Hospital, and then transferred to Mankato Mayo Hospital. She remains hospitalized today. The identity of the girl has not been released.
