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A woman who claimed to have witnessed a newborn being thrown from a moving car was the baby s mother and concocted the story as a way to abandon the child and conceal her pregnancy from her family, officials said Friday. It s not as hor stanley mugs rible as we first thought, Sheriff Ken Jenne said. The baby was never thrown out of a moving car. This is the case stanley cup of a disturbe stanley cup d woman who gave birth and did not want to keep her child. No charges were brought against the woman, 38-year-old Patricia Pokriots. She was committed for psychiatric evaluation under a law that allows for people who are a threat to themselves or others to be held for 72 hours.On Thursday afternoon, Pokriots dropped an hour-old baby off at a sheriff s station, telling authorities that she had scooped the boy up after seeing him tossed out of a car onto the grass, Jenne said. Pokriots told investigators she saw a couple arguing in a car, then witnessed the woman throwing the child from the passenger side.Eventually, investigators found inconsistencies in Pokriots story, and on Friday she acknowledged that she had lied, the sheriff said. She has indicated that she does not want the child, Jenne said.The baby, whose umbilical cord was still attached when he was brought in, had no injuries, reports Joan Murray of CBS station WFOR-TV. He weighs 8-pounds, 2-ounces, and I have to tell you, I saw him, he looks beautiful, he s a little fighter, full of life, Veda Coleman-Wright, of the Broward County sheriff s off Kyoo Bride surprised by her own wedding
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