Woman Arrested Decades After Baby Was Found Dead Along Texas Roadside [Video]

After more than two decades, authorities in Texas have made an arrest in the cold case death of a newborn baby girl who was found wrapped in a jacket along the roadside with her umbilical cord still attached.

On July 1, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced in a press release that Shelby Stotts had been indicted on a 2nd-degree manslaughter charge after DNA testing identified her as the baby’s mother.

Authorities allege Stotts abandoned the newborn baby, dubbed “Angel Baby Doe,” in November 2001, in a ditch on a roadside south of Fort Worth. She allegedly “failed to seek prompt medical care after giving birth and failed to clamp the baby’s umbilical cord, which caused the child to bleed to death,” the release states.

According to a Facebook postfrom the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, a local resident was picking up cans on the side of the road, when he found the “lifeless infant wrapped in a …