SEQUIM — A woman who apparently panicked about taking care of her newborn baby reported finding the child abandoned in her car Sunday morning, but later admitted that the baby was hers, according to police.
The baby, a girl born prematurely and weighing less than four pounds, appears healthy and was taken to Olympic Medical Center, Port Angeles Police Officer D. Dombrowski said Sunday.
“At this point, the doctors didn’t think that there were any severe problems, as far as they could tell right away,” he said.
Police estimate the child was born about six weeks early.
The child’s mother, a 21-year-old Port Angeles woman, drove the two-day-old baby from Port Angeles to her place of work in Sequim on Sunday, then called police and said she had found the child abandoned in her car, Dombrowski said.
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The rest of the story is in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.