A woman wanted in connection with the discovery of babies’ body parts under a home in North Carolina was arrested in Jacksonville on Wednesday.
Police said Bridgette Smith, 31, had a warrant for her arrest for concealing a death, WJXT reports.
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In April 2016 Smith’s mother discovered trash bags containing body parts of two babies in a crawl space under her house, according to WJXT.
Smith’s mother told police she found the body parts when she asked her son to run a cable under the house and he saw “two trash bags that he described as ‘squishy’,” WJXT reports.
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Detectives confirmed that the remains belong to two babies, who were wrapped with towels inside the trash bag, police said. A medical examiner has still not confirmed the cause of death but further charges for Smith are still on the table, police said to WJXT.
Smith’s mother told police that her daughter faced drug problems and that she got pregnant as a teenager and gave the baby up for adoption, WJXT reports. Smith also has a 7-year-old daughter and an 8-month-old son who is in her mother’s custody, according to police.
Smith remains at the Duval County Jail on a fugitive warrant, according to WJXT. It is not known when she will be extradited back to North Carolina.
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