Mother who fell asleep and awoke to find her 4-month-old daughter 'very pale' demanded no one call 911: Police

A pistillate successful West Virginia awoke to find her baby dead oregon adjacent to decease — and she demanded that nary 1 adjacent her telephone 911 due to the fact that crimes had been committed successful the home, authorities say.

Jonda Marie Whitt, 35, is successful the Southwestern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility connected a $500,000 bond, jailhouse records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

She has been charged with child neglect causing decease and possession with intent to deliver, the Williamson Daily News reported.

On Saturday astatine astir 2 a.m., 911 dispatchers successful Mingo County, West Virginia, got a telephone from a antheral saying helium had learned astir an infant's death. The antheral said his girl overheard a telephone betwixt Whitt and idiosyncratic other successful which Whitt said her 4-month-old girl was dead.

The defendant, however, allegedly told the different idiosyncratic not to telephone exigency services due to the fact that she had drugs and amerciable substances wrong the home.

But those drugs were, apparently, not conscionable successful the location — they were allegedly adjacent the baby. According to a transgression ailment reviewed by the section newspaper, Whitt had "drugs concealed wrong her bra and that was the country the babe was laying nearby."

First responders arrived astatine the location successful Mingo County, which is located successful the southwestern portion of West Virginia. As the kid was being rushed to an country hospital, paramedics believed the babe was dormant due to the fact that of "the infant's colour of the tegument being precise pale" and "rigor mortis that was successful the infant's extremities," the ailment stated, per determination NBC affiliate WSAZ.

Whitt reportedly told investigators that she had fallen dormant astir 12:30 a.m. and woken up astir 90 minutes later. She said she checked connected her daughter, and though the kid was warm, she was not moving.

Officers searched some the fishy and the home, and said they recovered a integrative baggie with a achromatic powdery substance wrong Whitt's mouth. She allegedly admitted to utilizing fentanyl earlier waking up to find her girl unresponsive.