HAGATNA — A 32-year-old Guam woman is accused of abandoning her newborn baby boy on the doorstep of a stranger’s home.
Naomi Nicole Taisican Omapas was charged Friday with child abuse, family violence and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, the Pacific Daily News reported .
She was released that same day on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond.
Court documents state Omapas admitted to leaving her baby in the front yard of a home, but they don’t say why she did it.
There is no evidence in the charging documents to support the claim that Omapas intended to abandon her baby, argued Peter Sablan, Omapas’ lawyer.
He asked the court to dismiss the charges, but his request was denied.
The Guam police department found Omapas’ baby at a Dededo residence Tuesday morning. The family told police the baby was left in a laundry basket in front of their home. The baby was wrapped in a towel and T-shirt, court papers state.
The baby is in government custody and is doing well, officials said.
This week, detectives went back to the neighborhood and found witnesses who reported seeing Omapas in the area before she gave birth.
Officers found Omapas in Dededo and she told them she had given birth at her Dededo home about midnight Tuesday, document state.
She also told police that, three weeks before giving birth to the baby, she smoked “ice” and that she smoked the drug to “get away from her life’s problems,” according to the court complaint.
Omapas was previously charged with family violence and misdemeanor child abuse for hitting her kids with a clothes hanger after she caught them jumping on a bed where a newborn baby was lying, according to Pacific Daily News files.
