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Verna Tolentino, 40, of Morton Grove, is being charged with attempted first-degree murder and child abandonment. (Glenview Police Department)
GLENVIEW, IL A mother is accused of attempted first-degree murder and child abandonment after police said she left her baby tied inside a garbage bag in a bathroom garbage can for more than two hours last month in Glenview. Verna Tolentino, 40, of the 5800 block of Washington Street, Morton Grove, was arrested Thursday following an investigation into the Jan. 11 incident at the Glenview Terrace Nursing Home.
The baby is still hospitalized and in stable condition, according to a release from the Glenview Police Department.
Suburban woman charged after newborn baby was found inside a tied garbage bag
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Morton Grove woman was arrested and charged on Thursday with
Glenview police say an investigation revealed that Verna Tolentino, 40, was transported to Glenbrook Hospital from Glenview Terrace Nursing Home, where she is an employee, for abdominal pain on Jan. 11.
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A nursing home employee allegedly abandoned her newborn child in a tied-up trash bag last month while at work in Glenview.
Verna Tolentino, 40, faces charges of attempted murder and child abandonment in connection to the Jan. 11 incident at Glenview Terrace Nursing Home, police said Friday.
Tolentino, an employee of the nursing home at 1511 Greenwood Road, called an ambulance in the afternoon after locking herself into a restroom and complaining of abdominal pain, Glenview police said.
Two and a half hours later, cleaning staff in the restroom found a baby boy inside a tied garbage bag inside a garbage can, police said. The infant was taken to a hospital where his condition was stabilized.