Mother Gets Probation for Baby's Woods Death

0:00It's April 22nd. Welcome to Kansas News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. A Kansas City mother just got three years of probation for ditching her baby's body in the woods. Ray Lena Barlett pleaded guilty to abandoning the corpse of her six-month-old daughter, Collie of Bridgewater, whose remains turned up decomposing near. Pittman rode back on May 13th, 2023, right during Mother's Day weekend. Police got the call around 7.45 pm that evening about a dead infant in a wooded lot. They found the baby in bad shape, wrapped with trash bags, and nearby items like a blanket. DNA confirmed Barlett is the mom, but no one have reported the death to medical examiners beforehand. Barlett and her boyfriend spun conflicting tales to investigators and family. She claimed the baby choked while he held her. Then he blocked her from calling help and drove off with the body. He said he hadn't seen the kid in weeks and called her a bad mom. Her dad thought the infant died peacefully in her sleep at first.

1:01The medical examiner couldn't pin down a cause or manner of death. At her apartment, cops spotted a stripped car seat, matching trash bags, and drug paraphernalia like a syringe. Barlett's sentence includes mandatory mental health and drug treatment to get her straight. This case leaves a lot of questions about what really went down with Little Calia.