WHITEWATER, Wis. (AP) — Police say a woman believed to be the mother of a dead newborn child found abandoned in a southern Wisconsin field earlier this month has been arrested. The Whitewater Police Department says in a news release posted on its Facebook page that the 39-year-old Whitewater woman was arrested Friday. Police say the woman is being held in the Jefferson County Jail. Her name name hasn’t been released. Police say charges of concealing death of a child and resisting or obstructing an officer are being forwarded to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office. Police say the newborn boy was found March 4 in a plastic bag inside a cardboard box.
