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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today's Tuesday, October 29th, Kathy's out.

I'll be handling the news details.

We'll begin with this.

Lehigh Valley mother accused of leaving her baby on a bus is behind bars on

Monday night. Police say the woman walked on the bus in Bethlehem over the weekend, handed her infant to the driver, and then turned around and walked away.

It happened on Saturday at the bus stop near the intersection of Guter and Broad Streets in Bethlehem. The mother identified as

26-year-old Ashley Walters of Whitehall has been arrested and charged. While the bus was stopped,

Walters approached the bus with her one-month-old baby boy in hand. Next, she entered the bus,

placed him on the fare box, and told the driver to call police and that this was her son and that she can't take care of him.

After the mother left the bus, she walked away in tears.

Police later found her just a few hundred yards away.

The safe haven law in Pennsylvania states that a baby no older than 28 days must be left at a hospital or with a police officer or at a police station.

In this particular case, Walters didn't do that, so she was charged with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment.

I know.

I wonder what the story is there.

It could be pretty heartbreaking.

It could be somebody who just does not want to do this and have no other way to do it.

Right. We've heard stories of mothers who have done far worse, like putting a kid in a garbage can or something like that.

So I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. And I wonder what the, what the proper steps are and what you need to do.

Right. You know, so, but they're obviously going to investigate this and find this out.

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