No charges in baby death

A loophole in state law is preventing Campbell County investigators from charging a woman they say killed her newborn baby. Investigators say the baby was already dead when deputies got there, and that the baby’s airway was still blocked. They say the baby was under bedding and had been suffocated by her mother. Because the mother and baby were still connected by the umbilical cord and placenta, state law does not consider the baby to be a separate life, and thus the mother cannot be charged. WSLS