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Erica Kelly Didn’t Want A Baby

April 3, 2009 at 9:03 am by Jaded

Erica Denise Kelly

Union County, North Carolina–In February, a story was posted in our forums about the discovery of a dead infant left near a burn pile in Union County. The infant, with umbilical cord still attached, had been full-term and had been born alive. There is a possibility the baby may have lived for several hours after being dumped near the burn pile. With all of the Safe Haven laws that exist, who could do such a thing?

Months later, through DNA, that question has been answered. Erica Denise Kelly gave birth to a full-term baby girl and left her to die in a pile of garbage.

The child was found dead in the front yard of a home on Whispering Hollow Road just after noon on February 24. Investigators say the homeowners left that Tuesday morning and found the baby about 30 feet from the front door when they returned home. Investigators interviewed and collected DNA samples from everyone at the home. Erica Kelly and her boyfriend were in the process of moving into the home where the baby was found, and both were at the scene when officers arrived. She and her boyfriend were among the dozen or so who gave a DNA sample.

The results of the DNA samples came back a few days ago. Kelly, the mother of a 2-year-old son, was a perfect match…her boyfriend was not. Weird, because nobody even suspected Kelly was pregnant at the time. She did a damn good job of hiding her pregnancy, she had everyone fooled…including her boyfriend. A friend of Kelly’s mentioned to investigators that Kelly may have abandoned the baby to hide the affair she had been having. Personally, I think an affair would have been much easier to explain than a dead baby.

Erica Denise Kelly, 22, was arrested at her place of employment on Thursday, a little more than a month after the discovery of Baby Jane Doe. She is being charged with murder and concealing the birth of a child, and is being held in Union County jail with no bond. Authorities are still looking for the father of the child.

The original reports on this story mentioned that the baby may have had deformities. At this time, that can neither be confirmed nor denied.

Information on North Carolina’s Safe Surrender law can be found here.

‘North Carolina’s Safe Surrender Law allows an overwhelmed parent to surrender a newborn to a responsible adult and walk away. The baby will then be placed in a loving home. An infant up to 7 days old may be surrendered to any responsible adult. Safe surrender is anonymous and legal.’

Special2bme has this story posted in the forums.

Tags: abandoned baby, Crime, DNA, infant, Murder, North Carolina

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Special2bme

I can’t believe this selfish bitch couldn’t take the baby to a fire station or a hospital because so many people who can’t have children would have loved to have a baby. This so pisses me off to know end. I just want to reach out and strangle the bitch!

I hope the cunt pays for her crime and never sees the light of day! I also hope she gets the shit beat out of her while in prison.
Jury

Cunt.
http://www.myspace.com/nobletrish Trish

Absolutely a selfish Bitch.
So killing an innocent baby is better then admitting you had an affair and got pregnant.
I think she deserves to be hog tied and thrown out with the garbage and die a slow agonzing death.
Zibarro

Now that is about the most simple Safe Haven Law I’ve seen! That this CUNT couldn’t take her newborn to any responsible adult is the ultimate “bitchness” and depravity there is. That child was alive and she left her there to DIE. Stupid, selfish, heartless, cuntfaced whore! So happy your son WON’T be raised by you!

My punishment for this bitch – drop her ass off in the middle of a desert. Let her see how helpless, defenseless, hungry, thirsty and scared her child felt. If she makes it out alive – THEN put her ass in prison.

RIP baby girl.
buggysmommy

Erica Denise Kelly

YOU FUCKING VILE WHORE…
Jury

My punishment for this bitch – drop her ass off in the middle of a desert. Let her see how helpless, defenseless, hungry, thirsty and scared her child felt. If she makes it out alive – THEN put her ass in prison.

Zibarro, your my hero of the day.
Harley_Tech

Let me see if I get this right.

A. Admit affair to boyfriend = pissed off boyfriend
B. Kill baby that resulted from affair = Long fucking time in jail.

it takes a real moron to select option B. She deserves nothing better than what she gave.

R
Dakota Valkyrie

She thinks if you don’t want someone, you can just abandon them by the burn pile? I wonder if she is now scared of burn piles because there are a whole lot of folks that don’t want her around.

Sadly, she probably doesn’t even understand the concept that the baby was more than a “thing” bent on destroying her little self-centered world.
tutkill

skank ho
DC murdering bitch
MadeaBecBec

Harley Tech says

A. Admit affair to boyfriend = pissed off boyfriendB. Kill baby that resulted from affair = Long fucking time in jail.

HT says

it takes a real moron to select option B. She deserves nothing better than what she gave.

Zibarro says

My punishment for this bitch – drop her ass off in the middle of a desert. Let her see how helpless, defenseless, hungry, thirsty and scared her child felt. If she makes it out alive – THEN put her ass in prison.

I’m with y’all…..
She’s definitely a sociopath!!!

During the hearing, Kelly pleaded not guilty, telling the court, “I didn’t do it.”

Erica Denise Kelly, of Waxhaw, asked a Superior Court judge in Monroe to be released on bond, saying she needed to care for her 2-year-old son and adding that she was not a flight risk. But the judge refused.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/640215.html

I figure sister Natalie will show up here…….
Cassandra

She could’ve got an abortion. Or gave her to Shana Brown.
Jennie420

What a cold bitch.
I don’t understand how you lay a new baby on the ground and walk away…how do you do it? My heart can’t imagine doing something so heinous. It bothers me to hear my 6 month old crying in her crib for too long. The thought of walking away to let her fend for herself…..i can’t even think of a word to describe the feeling it gives me.

Also, how well was her 2 year old cared for? Was she good to him? If so, does a good mother just ‘turn’ bad?

I hope she pays for what she has done.
knotme

She says she didn’t do it? Well, now we have a woman who not only has no conscience… we have a human being who has no soul. This woman is EVIL to the core and had she (at least) pleaded guilty, there might still be a chance of redemption. My belief in a Hell gives my soul comfort; it is how I keep myself in-check when I feel the absolute need to strike out at the vile and despicable creatures in human skin that prey on the rest of us.
nadine

I agree with knotme one hundred percent on this one
i ditto what you say
ecvmanzo

Leaving this little angel by a pile of garbage?? What goes through her veins, acid? I am so disgusted by this heinous bitch…The baby was deformed, therefore, she is garbage??

Hey you whore with a cervix, you are garbage
MadeaBecBec

She says she didn’t do it? Well, now we have a woman who not only has no conscience… we have a human being who has no soul. This woman is EVIL to the core and had she (at least) pleaded guilty, there might still be a chance of redemption. My belief in a Hell gives my soul comfort; it is how I keep myself in-check when I feel the absolute need to strike out at the vile and despicable creatures in human skin that prey on the rest of us.

Knotme: Me Also!!!

I wonder who or what it is that she is going to blame??? The bathtub? Nope couldn’t have.. The couch? Nope, wrong again! Mmmmm, The Garbage Collector?? Maybe!!? Waste Management do sometimes make mistakes…. I know, I know, they came to collect Erica Kelly and got the wee one instead, tragic mistake, just tragic!
I can only imagine what her strategic defense will be, it will probably include the non-father boyfriend, doing the deed, don’t y’all think?
Veronica

She says she didn’t do it? Well, now we have a woman who not only has no conscience… we have a human being who has no soul. This woman is EVIL to the core and had she (at least) pleaded guilty, there might still be a chance of redemption. My belief in a Hell gives my soul comfort; it is how I keep myself in-check when I feel the absolute need to strike out at the vile and despicable creatures in human skin that prey on the rest of us.

Well, I’m not surprised….she’s obviously a god damned idiot (Harley did a good job of explaining why), and when you add that to her obvious moral depravity, it’s hardly shocking that she thinks she can continue to fool everyone despite the DNA evidence.

Personality disorder for sure, even if she’s not a true sociopath. Stupid fucking bitch. I hope she drops dead.
granny-g

Just another evil bitch that feels all but HER life is disposable.
Too bad her mother did not feel the same way !
http://www.myspace.com/justdazin So Jaded

She could’ve got an abortion. Or gave her to Shana Brown.

That’s what I was thinking while I wrote the story…
But, I wouldn’t want any child to have to be subjected to Shana’s idiotic plans. Bitch is whacko…
http://www.myspace.com/justdazin So Jaded

During the hearing, Kelly pleaded not guilty, telling the court, “I didn’t do it.”

Are you fuckin’ kidding me? I would love to see who she places blame on.
grannyof2

ok i can see fooling everyone around you on being preggy BUT 1, thats the boyfriend hmmm, he is seeing her naked feeling of her, holding her and screwing her and he didnt know, hell if she weighed a lot i could see it, but she doesnt, that sorry sumbitch had to know and did he have anything to do with the death??
Abroad

You’ve a point there, Granny.

How could he not have known that she was with child?
http://www.myspace.com/aurniastar my_2_Cents

During the hearing, Kelly pleaded not guilty, telling the court, “I didn’t do it.”

Think the “boyfriend” placed the baby there?

hhmm…. Well, My cousin hid an entire pregnancy from my aunt AND her BF and didn’t tell anyone until she went into labor. ‘Course,My cousin is about 300 pounds and 6 feet tall…
Senna

It is possible to hide a pregnancy. When I was pregnant, no one knew unless I told them. And even then, they’d look me up and down and say, “Liar.” LOL (Off topic, I was sick the whole pregnancy. Very few foods would stay down. I lost 20 lbs and my son was born 10 weeks early. It would have been very easy for me to hide the pregnancy.)

That being said…I don’t understand these woman who dump their precious babies like garbage. What is wrong with them? Are they too stupid to know of the safe haven laws? Too idiotic to pass off the product of an affair as the child of their current partner? Shoot. Play your cards right and the man won’t even think to ask for a DNA test. (This was the case with my mother-in-law. For many years, she passed my husband and brother-in-law off as her husband’s sons. She got sloppy when they were teenagers and her husband found out. But by then, if he’d thrown the three of them out, it would have been like cutting off his nose to spite his face. Not to mention the humiliation and ridicule he’d have faced if his community and extended family found out.)

There was no excuse for this sorry excuse of a woman to abandon her child. If this had happened 100 or 200 years ago, I could have understood. But today, with safe haven laws and numerous other resources available to mothers? No excuse. And, sorry, I don’t count stupidity and selfishness as valid excuses.
mopar

I gotta say I just joined but I absolutely love you peps !
Abroad

Welcome aboard, Mopar

Stick around and comment. We can always use another perspective on the cases here.
http://www.myspace.com/justdazin So Jaded

I gotta say I just joined but I absolutely love you peps !

Welcome to the site, Mopar!
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

I gotta say I just joined but I absolutely love you peps !

Welcome!

You are sick, btw.
Special2bme

Are you fuckin’ kidding me? I would love to see who she places blame on.

Who is there for her to try and blame it on except for maybe the man who got her pregnant and is she willing to name him. The only blame here is her she is a CUNT.
mominAZ

Jesus, her options were many! Why did she have to pick the ONE thing that is so unbelievably sick it makes my belly turn over?
If she was able to hide a pregnancy, she could have also hid an adoption…or an abortion for that matter. Or why didn’t she lie to her current boyfirned and just sya it was his? Unless the affair was with someone of a different race than her boyfriend? I don’t know.
I think there is WAY more to this story than we’re hearing. How could the boyfriend not have known? She doesn’t look overly huge in the face, so I don’t think she’s overweight to begin with. How did he not notice no periods? Or the fact that there was a nice hard lump in the front of her belly? I think he DID know…or he at least knew once she gave birth.
auddie

It is possible to hide a pregnancy . . .

I’ve heard of this and read about it – but couldn’t your lover/hub tell you were preggo when intimate?

The other thing I can’t ever understand (based on living thru two deliveries) is how the hell can anyone hide/going thru labor and delivery?
Lilbay

That fucking cunt. All she could think about was that she wanted to continue to have her penis in her life Screw the fact this baby could have been born and given up safely and placed in a loving home with NO problems Forget that she has a child that NEEDS a mother. Although maybe she done shorty a favor and he can be better off without this selfish bytch.
I just can not for the Life of me wrap my brain around these type actions.
I am adopted and i have placed a child for adoption as a teen parent. WTF is wrong with people nowadays that they do not even consider adoption as a option? Instead they decided killing the children and babies is a much better idea???
CassieMomma

If she went through the delivery without anyone knowing and had time to take the baby to the burn pile, she could of taken the baby to a fire station, church or whatever and it’s no questions asked. So she didn’t even have to tell the boyfriend regardless. To me that makes you a cold hearted bitch and I hope you suffer for it.
Senna

I’ve heard of this and read about it – but couldn’t your lover/hub tell you were preggo when intimate?

Most definitely! Even if a pregnancy can be hidden under clothes (as mine could be) when the clothes came off, it was obvious. Unless she had a “headache” every night for nine months (also highly suspicious) her boyfriend should have been able to figure it out. (Unless he’s one of those men that walks around in life completely clueless, in which case, why didn’t she pass it off as his?!)

The other thing I can’t ever understand (based on living thru two deliveries) is how the hell can anyone hide/going thru labor and delivery?

I don’t understand this, either. The only time in my life I ever thought I might be close to dying was when I was giving birth to a 2lb, 4oz baby. With minimal pain medication. I couldn’t imagine giving birth to a 6-9lb full term baby with no pain medication and not be howling in agony.
Abroad

Most definitely! Even if a pregnancy can be hidden under clothes (as mine could be) when the clothes came off, it was obvious. Unless she had a “headache” every night for nine months (also highly suspicious) her boyfriend should have been able to figure it out. (Unless he’s one of those men that walks around in life completely clueless, in which case, why didn’t she pass it off as his?!)

Maybe they only did it doggy-style for nine months? :S
Anodyne

Her sister posted, in the link to the other news article, something about “you other idiots who don’t know a thing about this case…”

…the fuck.

What else IS there to know? Chick sluts around. Chick gets preggo. Chick hides it from her boyfriend because she doesn’t want him to know she’s slutting around. Chick gives birth, leaves baby in the yard by the trash to die, carries on with her life, even offers up a DNA sample (dur dur dur).

I can’t get passed the law wherein a baby up to 7 days old may be given to ANY responsible adult.

I have a lot of hate for this cunt right now. If she was my sister, sibling or not, I don’t think I could champion her.
Abroad

What else IS there to know? Chick sluts around. Chick gets preggo. Chick hides it from her boyfriend because she doesn’t want him to know she’s slutting around. Chick gives birth, leaves baby in the yard by the trash to die, carries on with her life, even offers up a DNA sample (dur dur dur).

And if the baby was in some way deformed, as they keep saying, all the more reason to hand her over to doctors and let some people adopt her who can a) afford to get her whatever treatment is available for her condition, b) insulate her from the world in general with their comparative wealth.

They will be able to tell whether the baby was still-born and in that case I might cut the girl some slack. I don’t think giving up a dead baby is quite as easy as giving up a live one. Questions would (have to) be asked; but the pathologist would still be able to tell, so no serious long-term trouble would have come to her.