South Carolina woman accused of putting baby in fridge

Tuesday, August 23, 2016
CHESTER, S.C. (WTVD) -- Investigators say a South Carolina woman put her 4-day-old son in a refrigerator for three hours leading to his death from hypothermia with asphyxiation.

WSOC-TV reports deputies in Chester County south of Charlotte and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigators charged Angela Blackwell, 27, with homicide by child abuse on Monday.
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According to an arrest warrant, Blackwell took the infant out of the refrigerator at her home in Chester after three hours and then sought medical attention.

It happened in February.
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Blackwell remains in the Chester County Detention Center.

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