North Carolina woman threw 7-week-old daughter down 75-foot ravine, claimed she had been kidnapped: police

A North Carolina mother who allegedly tossed her 7-week-old 
infant daughter down a large ravine now faces attempted murder 
charges.

Krista Noelle Madden, 35, was charged with attempted murder and 
held in the Henderson County jail on a $750,000 bond.

The baby girl, Shaylie, was found safe on Thursday evening 
thanks to an unlikely set of circumstances.

A woman walked outside to check the mailbox and thought she 
heard the faint cries of an infant. She brought her husband out 
and he descended into what Henderson County Sheriff Lowell S. 
Griffin called “a 75-foot ravine” where he found the baby and a 
car seat.

“It’s by the grace of God that we’re standing here with a child 
that’s been discovered and is alive,” Griffin said at a press 
conference on Friday.

He believes the child was thrown into the ravine in the car seat 
and rolled out after hitting the ground. The child is said to be 
in “very good condition” now.

A police search for the Madden and the missing baby happened 
earlier that evening when someone, who police said actually 
believed the mother and daughter were kidnapped, called 911.

Investigators pinged Madden’s phone and found her car abandoned 
on a remote road near a church. She approached responding 
officers and told them she had been kidnapped, but she escaped 
without her baby.

Officers took Madden in for questioning and determined that she 
hadn’t been kidnapped based on information gathered at the scene 
and during interviews. And after the baby was found, charges 
were filed.

Madden made her first appearance in court on Friday morning.

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