Woman Arrested For Hiding Newborn Baby Inside Suitcase She Put In Outside Doghouse
Jessica Lynn Weeks was charged with felony injury to a child, felony failure to notify of a death, and felony destruction, alteration, or concealment of evidence.
Deputies with the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office responded to a “suspicious circumstance” call near East Idaho Highway 40 near Downey on June 5.
The reporting party said she heard from her son, who is incarcerated, that there was a “deceased infant possibly going to be located in a piece of luggage near the dog house in the back of the residence.”
He told deputies a second woman, a friend of Weeks’, was there when she gave birth, trying to help her. The man also said he spoke to a second inmate, who had allegedly witnessed the baby inside the suitcase.
When deputies spoke to the second inmate, he said he was at the house in January when he saw Weeks placing a purple suitcase in a doghouse.
He said he was cleaning up a few months later and came across the suitcase. After opening it, he observed “an infant’s leg that flopped onto his arm,” according to court documents.
He said the baby was wrapped in black plastic. He immediately left the area and “never went back.”
A search warrant was issued, and law enforcement arrived at the home, where they found Weeks and learned she had a warrant for her arrest out of Franklin County for possession of narcotics. She was then arrested and taken into custody.
At the home, officers noticed the “odor of decomposition” in the backyard, according to court documents. As they continued investigating, they found a “purple carry-on style suitcase” inside the dog house.
The entrance to the dog house was reportedly blocked with a tire and bags of trash, so deputies lifted the roof off and removed the suitcase from the inside.
Detectives unzipped the suitcase, and saw a “blueish baby blanket” and “numerous types of insects,” according to police reports.
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