Richland County Sheriff’s Department

LEON LOTT
Sheriff

Mother of Abandoned Baby Arrested

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced the arrest of Orenthia McCuller (DOB: 03/05/90) charged with unlawful conduct towards a child.

Sheriff Lott states that on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1800 Longcreek Drive (The Enclave Apartments) McCuller, a college student, has admitted to giving birth to a baby boy and then leaving him outside of the laundry room of the apartment complex early Monday morning. Monday, September 26, 2011 just after 6:00 AM Richland County Sheriff’s deputies were called by a concerned citizen that a baby had been abandoned at 1800 Long Creek Drive (Enclave Apartments).

The newborn baby boy was found wrapped in a blanket and was transported to Palmetto Richland Hospital where he is in good condition.

McCuller has been arrested and transported to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.

  
September
27, 2011

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