A 21-year-old Georgia woman was arrested Thursday after police say
she stabbed her infant son to death just hours after giving birth to
him.
According to officials, the mother, Cassandra Elyse Norwood,
delivered the baby in secret and without any assistance in the Athens
home where she lived with her parents and other relatives.
Norwood was taken to a hospital to be treated for delivery-related
blood loss where she remained under guard before being transported to
Clarke County Jail Friday morning.
Athens-Clarke police told the Athens Banner-Herald the 21-year-old
was alone in one part of the house on Great Oak Drive when she gave
birth Thursday afternoon.
police received a 911 call from someone around 1pm who had found
the baby’s lifeless body inside the residence in the Waverly Woods
subdivision.
First responders who arrived on the scene discovered the slain
infant. Shortly after, Norwood was taken into custody and charged with
murder before being sent to Athens Regional Medical Center.
Police would not speculate about the motive behind the deadly
stabbing, saying Norwood did not require psychiatric care
while at the hospital. Norwood’s Facebook page says the 21-year-old, who
has three siblings, graduated from Cedar Shoals High School in 2009.
She also listed marketing at Athens Technical College under the
education classification.
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