A Roane County women is facing charges of abuse of a corpse in connection to the death of her newborn. Officers say they received reports that 34 year old Amanda Cooper had given birth to a baby Saturday, but the baby died.
When officers arrived to her Rosedale Avenue home, they found the baby wrapped in a sheet on a bed behind the couch where Cooper was sitting.
The investigation is ongoing, the newborn’s cause of death has not been released.