This week's news of a Middletown mother leaving her just-born baby to die at her Franklin workplace was not the first time such an incident has occurred in the Tristate.
Some notable local cases of newborn abandonment and infanticide:
• 1946: Cincinnati police searched for the mother of a 3-week-old boy abandoned in the women's restroom at Union Terminal. The baby was found on a leather lounge with a bottle of sour milk beside him.
• 1993: A newborn girl was left swaddled in a pink-and-red curtain and a worn sheet on a restaurant restroom floor on Colerain Avenue.
• 1994: The body of a newborn was found in a garbage truck at the Montgomery County incinerator. The mother was sentenced to prison.
• 1995: Angela Weyler of Colerain Township was criminally charged for abandoning her baby on the steps of a Sayler Park church. Ms. Weyler was accused of leaving Good Samaritan Hospital, where she had given birth, and abandoning her son the next night on the back steps of the First Presbyterian Church of Delhi. The 27-year-old was placed on probation for a year and given a suspended 180-day jail sentence by Hamilton County Municipal Judge Melba Marsh.
• 1995: A newborn boy was found dead July 5 in a pile of garbage in Lockland. Authorities never found the baby's mother.
