Crime & Safety
Parents Arrested After Abandoning 6-Week-Old Baby: Hartford PD
The parents got into an altercation and chased each other away while leaving their baby on a cold sidewalk, police said.
HARTFORD, CT — Two Hartford parents were arrested after they abandoned their 6-week-old baby on a sidewalk, police said.
Kenya Anderson, 22, and Eddie Stevens, 54, were charged with risk of injury to a minor, child abandonment and other charges, according to court records.
The two had gotten into a verbal altercation and chased each other while leaving the baby on a sidewalk, according to Fox 61. A Good Samaritan took the baby inside a laundromat until police arrived.
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Anderson told the Good Samaritan to keep the baby because she didn't want another DCF case, police said.
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