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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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Verna Tolentino, 40, was taken into custody Friday at the Glenview Police Station and charged with attempted first-degree murder and child abandonment, according to police.
The abandoned baby was discovered Jan. 11 in the 1500-block of Greenwood Road, according to a statement from the Glenview Police Department.
The police investigation revealed that Tolentino, who was an employee of Glenview Terrace Nursing Home, had been transported to Glenbrook Hospital by the local fire department around 12:30 p.m. that day after complaining of abdominal pain.
Witnesses said Tolentino locked herself in the bathroom at work before asking for an ambulance, according to police.
Hours later, police said cleaning staff found the baby boy inside a tied garbage bag inside a garbage can that was in the bathroom Tolentino had locked herself in.