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21-year-old Georgia woman was arrested Thursday after police say she
st**bbed to d**th her infant son 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.
At
around 1pm, police received a 911 call from someone 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, only
saying that 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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