CHICAGO (STMW) – The 25-year-old mother of a newborn has been charged with murder after allegedly hiding the baby girl in a plastic bag in her North Side closet Friday evening.
Marisol Molina, of the 6100 block of North Sheridan Road, has been charged with one count of murder, police News Affairs said Monday.
Baby girl Molina, born on Thursday, was found dead at 6157 N. Sheridan Rd., according to a Cook County Medical Examiner’s office spokesman, who said the newborn was found dead in a closet. A Saturday autopsy come back inconclusive and is pending further studies, the medical examiner’s office said.
Marisol Molina gave live birth to the baby and then placed the baby inside a plastic bag and concealed the bag in a closet, causing her death, police said.
Police were notified of the death about 6:30 p.m. Friday, police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien said. It was unclear who called police.
Loyola University Chicago’s Lake Shore campus is located just blocks away.
Illinois Dept. of Children and Family Services spokesman Kendall Marlowe said the agency was not investigating the death as of Friday night. An agency spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment Monday morning.
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