Kimberly Fisher , charged with attempted murder of newborn Found in the woods

[Hellsbells]

HAMPTON — A Hampton woman who allegedly abandoned her newborn daughter in the woods near her home Friday has been charged with attempted murder.

Kimberly Vick Fisher, 30, of the first block of Rendon Drive, was taken into custody early Saturday, said Cpl. Allison Quinones, spokeswoman for the Hampton Police Department.

Police were called to the first block of Rendon around noon Friday, after a contractor discovered the infant, wrapped in a knotted plastic trash bag and towels, in a wooded area near where he was working. The infant's umbilical cord still attached, Quinones said.

Although the baby is still hospitalized, she did not suffer any life-threatening injuries and appears to be doing well, said Quinones.

http://articles.dailypress.com/2010-...lison-quinones

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

What a piece of trash. She gives life and then attempts to take it away. I can't wrap my mind around that mindset.

[ImmortalOne]

Cunt. She needs her uterus ripped the fuck out. Just like the rest of the baby killers and abusers

[momof3]

With the safehaven laws there is no excuse! WTF?

[FlowerWhiskers]

Good God. Was she leaving the baby in the woods because she thought that magical woodland fairies would discover it and care for it? Come to think of it, no. She wanted the baby to die, hence the knotted trashbag. I hear they make trashbags in larger sizes...perhaps we could find one that's a perfect fit for her.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

You guys said that the LAST time a baby was abandoned. This is getting boring.

[Silvahalo]

What's remarkable to me is the baby was found alive. Wrapped in a towels, put in a trash bag. Really it's truly amazing. That baby will go on to live and I hope it is a good life. She doesn't need to know about the way she was discarded. I can tell you she doesn't need to know.

Be happy sweet one.

[Tundratot]

Dropping her baby in the woods seems like a ambiguous choice. The chances someone would find and rescue the baby were slim, which means to me she wanted the baby to die, but if she wrapped the baby in towels and the bag (in a swaddling fashion rather than a closed trashbag fashion), I would say she wanted the baby to have a chance as that would help keep her warm longer. Maybe she was hoping woodland faeries would come and rescue her, or wolves. I guess we should all be thankful for the fact that she did it this way, leaving the baby alive, and for the fortunate circumstance that someone was out there to find the little dear.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A woman accused of trying to kill her newborn baby told a police investigator that she didn't know she was pregnant when she delivered the baby girl in her bathroom Sept. 23, the detective testified Monday.

Kimberly Vick Fisher, 30, told police she went to the computer room to get a pair of scissors, using them to cut the baby's umbilical cord, Hampton police detective Kim Harrison testified at a bond hearing. Then Fisher pulled out the placenta.

"She said she was in a panicked state, and went to the kitchen and placed the baby in a bag," and tied it up, Harrison testified. Fisher then "said she proceeded to take the baby outside and placed her in a wooded area," Harrison said.

Fisher told Harrison she never "looked to see the sex" of the baby, "never checked the baby's airway," and "never heard the baby cry or make any movements," Harrison testified.

But, Harrison added, Fisher knew "there was a possibility that the baby was alive." Harrison said Fisher told her she opened a back window, then the back door, "to see if she could hear the baby crying."
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Neighbors said the bag — with towels wrapping the baby inside — was about five feet from the edge of the backyard. It was not immediately clear from Monday's testimony what time the baby had been placed in the bag the day before — or how the baby was able to survive when Fisher said she had tied up the bag.
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At the hearing, Judge Robert B. Wilson V of the Hampton Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court denied bond for Fisher, ordering she be held on the attempted murder charge pending a preliminary hearing Nov. 12. "It's appropriate to continue to hold her," Wilson said.

In arguing for a bond, Clancy said there was no evidence to show Fisher was a danger to herself or others, and no evidence that she wouldn't show up for her later court dates. "Certainly I can understand why everyone is aghast by this case," Clancy said. "The allegations are certainly horrendous." But, he added, "she's entitled to a reasonable bond."

He pointed to a "safety plan" — drawn up by Hampton's Department of Human Services — in which Fisher would live with her father, Norman Vick, a Norfolk pastor. Also under the plan, Fisher would be barred from seeing her 20-month-old child, though she could talk to that child by phone.
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In other court testimony Monday, a worker from Hampton Department of Social Services said the baby was discharged from the hospital Friday and placed in a foster home. It was unclear if the child has yet been named.

When Kimberly Fisher was first interviewed by police, she "denied any knowledge of the baby," Harrison testified. But in an interview later that night, Fisher admitted delivering the baby, adding that neither she nor her husband knew she had been pregnant, Harrison said.

Harrison said Fisher delivered the baby after getting sick and vomiting, and having what she thought was her menstrual period. When her husband got home from work, "he helped her clean up the blood" from the labor, but she didn't tell him about the delivery, Harrison said.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime...,5939437.story

[carolinablue]

Husband? She's married? Oh shit. That's a whole new level of evil. Even in states that don't have a safe haven law, you can leave the baby in the dressing room of a department store, tucked in among the stuff on a t shirt display, in a church, a homeless shelter...Geeze, I could find a safe place to save a baby's life!

I wonder what the husband thinks about her leaving his baby to die.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I think I would be freaked out if a baby came out of me when I didn't know I was pregnant. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be putting it in a trash bag, though. How does that idea even come to mind??? Why NOT call 911 at that point?

And what's up with hubby helping clean up blood? Not even my husband is that oblivious. "It was a really big nose bleed" would not suffice.

[Obsolete]

Dropping her baby in the woods seems like a ambiguous choice. The chances someone would find and rescue the baby were slim, which means to me she wanted the baby to die, but if she wrapped the baby in towels and the bag (in a swaddling fashion rather than a closed trashbag fashion), I would say she wanted the baby to have a chance as that would help keep her warm longer. Maybe she was hoping woodland faeries would come and rescue her, or wolves. I guess we should all be thankful for the fact that she did it this way, leaving the baby alive, and for the fortunate circumstance that someone was out there to find the little dear.

She didn't give a fuck about the baby. The towels were only there to help muffle the cries so no one would find him/her.

[Silkprints]

I am suprised that she's even being charged .Uusually they will blame post partum or temp insanity and spend a few weeks in the hospital. Some moron will make it their first priority to put this baby back in her mothers care as fast as the can so they can 'bond ' I hope I don't see these same names posted in the near future for something even worse

[AngelFire]

Why wait for the bag she may fit in? I say it's best if you hog tie her ass, and wrap a bag around her head and tie it very tightly and leave her in the woods...It would be a feast for all those hungry animals that could have torn her baby daughter to shreds if she wouldn't have been found. Ugly cunt

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I am suprised that she's even being charged .Uusually they will blame post partum or temp insanity and spend a few weeks in the hospital.

Even if they take a mental illness defense, they are still charged and a trial held. Only if they are very obviously ill do they send them directly to the rubber room. Even then, they face charges once they are declared "sane". Only if they are found to be mentally ill at the time of the offense ("Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity") do they get sent to the hospital and then let out once found sane.

An insanity defense is very RARELY used and is highly unsuccessful in those few cases.

I'm not sure about this jurisdiction, but some places have "Guilty but Mentally Ill". They face a sentence the same as a non-mentally ill person. If convicted under GMI, they spend the same amount of time locked up. If they "get well" before the sentence is done, they finish it in prison. I really like that approach and hope more states adopt it.

[Bohring]

Why should they get an "attempted murder" charge? Seems to me these people do this shit expecting their victim to die. Fuck the attempted murder, and just go with the "EPIC FAIL MURDER" charge. Fucking bitch. Hopefully, the baby will go to an adoptive parent(s) that are just dying to spoil the shit out of this girl.

[nopatience]

I wonder what the husband thinks about her leaving his baby to die.

Maybe it wasn't her husband's baby, hence the disposal of this one when she already has one. That's something I will never understand. How someone could have one child, but discard another so callously.

[Kitty]

Kimberly Vick Fisher pleaded guilty to attempted murder and child abuse and neglect charges in Hampton Circuit Court.

The baby is healthy and currently is in the process of being adopted by Fisher's family.

Fisher faces between 2-10 years in prison on the attempted murder charge and between 1 day to five years for the child abuse charge.

A sentencing hearing is set for Aug. 1.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampt...,3966582.story

The sentence isn't nearly long enough. Hopefully there's some mandated birth control too.

[VXIII]

Squeeze a toy dolls head together at the temples and it looks just like her... seriously try it...

[Jerri Blank]

Woman sentenced in attempted killing of her baby
Kimberly Vick Fisher, 31, gets two and a half years for placing her newborn baby in the woods.

A Hampton woman who pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of her newborn baby — by leaving the girl in a plastic bag in the woods behind her home last year — was sentenced Monday to two and a half years behind bars.


Kimberly Vick Fisher, 31, got far less than the 15 years she faced for the attempted murder and child neglect charges. She got slightly less than advisory sentencing guidelines that called for a term between two years and 11 months and six years and 11 months.


Judge Wilford Taylor Jr. said he was convinced by Fisher's family support and Fisher's expressions of remorse. He gave her five years in prison, with half the term suspended.


"I accept that you are sorry, and convinced that this was out of character," Taylor said at the hearing in Hampton Circuit Court. He also said he was impressed by the "tremendous support she got from the community" in letters to the judge. [...]

http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampt...,3410288.story

[Robynne]

two and a half years behind bars.

Not nearly long enough for almost letting her baby die.

"I accept that you are sorry, and convinced that this was out of character,"

Really? "Oh, you're sorry, and you've never done anything like this before? Oh, well then it's okay. I guess if you go out and do it again, I will not be responsible for giving you that chance.

He also said he was impressed by the "tremendous support she got from the community" in letters to the judge.

So, there were tons of people sending him letters, and he wants to get votes from these writers for something he plans to run for. Support for almost killing your baby? I guess that saying is true. "Almost doesn't count except for horseshoes and hand grenades". I guess if I almost kill someone, I can get off with a slap on the wrist too, huh?