Posted on 06/19/2007 6:06:50 PM PDT by reaganaut
Police investigating the disappearance of pregnant mom Jessie Davis are looking into the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby 45 miles from where the woman was last seen.
The day-old infant girl was left Monday night in a wicker basket on the doorstep of a residence in rural south Wooster, Ohio and taken to Wooster Community Hospital, where a DNA sample was taken.
Davis, who was pregnant with a baby girl and due to give birth July 3, vanished in North Canton, south of Cleveland in northeastern Ohio.
Authorities are trying to determine whether there is a link between that baby and the one Davis, 26, was expecting, said Stark City Sheriff's Chief Deputy Rick Perez in a Tuesday evening press conference.
"Investigators are not ruling anything out at this time," Perez said.
Thomas Maurer, sheriff in neighboring Wayne County, does not believe there is a connection between the baby and Davis. He said a doctor determined that the newborn was less than 24 hours old.
"We're using every caution we can" to ID the infant or eliminate the possibility that she is related to Davis, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And “Mommy was crying”. And there was a pool of bleach on the rug. I’m afraid some of Mommy really was IN the rug. Poor little tyke. Fortunately children/adults don’t have any recall of things they experienced before the age of about 3. Some stage of brain development necessary for lont term memory retention hasn’t happened yet. So he won’t remember the horrifying scene, but the experience has to leave a psychological mark nonetheless.
I’m afraid the chances of this woman being found alive are pretty close to zero. It would be a miracle if this newborn turned out to be hers — I sure hope it is.
My money is on the pos married cop.
He’s a criminal too...
“In 1998, he [Cutts] pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and was sentenced to three years’ probation after a former girlfriend accused him of breaking a door jamb and forcing his way into their home, causing her to fear for her safety, according to a police report from nearby Jackson Township.”
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17391389.htm
It is horrible what happened to her because I am afraid she is dead and that child is without a mom.....
“Fortunately children/adults don’t have any recall of things they experienced before the age of about 3. Some stage of brain development necessary for lont term memory retention hasn’t happened yet.”
Yeah, and some stupid probably police shrinks, are telling the family not to ask the kid any questions. So, of course, it won’t take long for the kid to forget any details of what happened. Great. Ask the kid questions now. Be careful how, but ask, before the little one forgets everything, or stops talking about it because no one is saying anything back when he does. How stupid can you get! Assuming what you say is true about kids at that age most likely not remembering the horrifying scene, then ask the questions now, as the kid will forget most everything in the long run. This really ticks me off that no one is supposed to question the kid. The cops (not the idiot shrinks) must be going nuts not being able to ask the child anything. I know I’d be frustated as could be. They are leaving their best source of info to go down the drain.
I’ve read a few stories that state that the abandoned baby they found is white with brown hair. The retired nurse & family believe it’s probably not connected to the case and is more likely the baby of a troubled woman who knew the retired nurse and thought it would be a safe place to leave her unwanted baby.
I'm afraid it isn't hers either. However, it would be nice if the baby she was about to deliver was safe.
My husband and I have been trying to have children for years but stories like this and Laci Peterson make me scared to be a pregnant woman nowadays.
Actually I think they know what they’re doing on that point. Young children are very susceptible to suggestion, and it’s easy to inadvertently lead them to say something happened when it didn’t. Some of the court cases back in the 1980s re daycare molestation that never really occurred and ruined the lives of the accused (at least one of whom was convicted and spent years in prison before being exonerated) were based on testimony from children that originated this way. As soon as word got out that one parent had made an accusation, all the other parents started asking their kids leading questions to try to find out if it happened to them, and in some cases well-meaning child psychologists did the same thing. Next thing you know dozens of little tykes were telling very similar stories of what “happened”, and prosecutors and jurors believed them because the stories were so similar.
Trouble was, none of it never happened, and the stories were similar because the adults doing the questioning had a preconceived notion of what answers they were looking for and kept questioning until they got them. By the time kids were actually testifying, they knew what answers the adults expected and gave them, and in many cases had undoubtedly lost track of the fact that the events never happened (children that young are often very vague on the difference between real and make-believe anyway).
Even adults can be led into believing something happened when it didn’t, but with young children it happens easily and inadvertently. I remember some years back watching a documentary about how “repressed memories” can be planted by psychologists talking with patients. As an experiment, a young woman was brought in to talk to a psychologist (on camera) about some vague issues — lack of confidence, etc. The psychologist deliberately led her through “remembering” things that might have caused her to think and feel this way. In a short time, this obviously intelligent young woman had described “remembering” being separated from her mother in a department store when she was very young, being terribly frightened, etc. etc. — all exactly what the psychologist had planned to plant in her mind, though the psychologist had never suggested the story explicitly, just asked leading, nudging questions.
Then they brought the young woman’s mother in and spilled the beans to the young woman, with the mother confirming that no such thing had ever happened. By that point the young woman was so convinced she “remembered” this, that it took a few minutes to convince her that the whole idea had been planted in her mind just in the past half hour. With a 2 year old, once an idea takes hold in their mind, it’s virtually impossible to ever sort out whether it was real or imagined/planted, unless there’s concrete outside evidence to confirm whether the remembered event really happened or not. They simply can’t analyze how they came to believe something and reconsider whether it had any basis in reality.
Looks like we were correct!
It’s not like she was the only nine-months-pregnant woman in Ohio.
This baby was most likely born to someone who didn’t want a a baby, didn’t want anyone to know she’d had a baby, but didn’t want to kill it either. That’s why it ended up in a basket at the front door of a nurse’s house.
agreed.
The same thing happened to a friend of mine, I really believe. She ‘remembered’ her father had molested her as a child. It was such a difficult thing for her to comprehend and she still believes it. He died before this whole mess was solved. The whole family split apart. I don’t think it was true but we’ll never know.
“This really ticks me off that no one is supposed to question the kid.”
I’ve been watching FOX this morning, and it isn’t true they haven’t questioned the child. They did. They’re just not making it public what the kid said.
From what I have gathered from the “silence”......the kid has implicated the father, Cutts.
They just played an audio statement of the father, Cutts, on Fox TV.....no video. He sounded as emotionally distraught as Susan Smith did before she was arrested for killing her two children in South Carolina! It’s all in the voice. I looked for the audio on the internet, but could not find it. I could only find one previous to this one released today. Today, there’s guilt in his voice IMO.
I’m sure the police know he did it. They just need more evidence before the arrest.
How dare you speak of St Jessie in such a manner. </sarcasm>
Sorry. I don't want to take away from the tragedy of this, but this is not a particularly smart girl. She was on her second child with a married man. That's not what a "good mom" does.
I hope they find her and that she is well. I'm just not going to have my daugther read her biography.
I was listening to Dr. Laura a long time ago and she was telling this whining women that his kids will always think of her as the bimbo that broke up their parents marriage.
She said she was not a bimbo, Dr. Laura told her smart women do not date married men.
It is horrible what happened to her and no one deserves that but please stop telling us what a smart women and wonderful mom she is.
I heard he was read his Miranda rights, but is still not a suspect. My Criminal Law - lawyer husband said one of those statements cant be true. They only Mirandize in an arrest. I argued that they may do it because he’s a cop but he didn’t think so.
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