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Persia Nelson was arraigned on Monday morning. (Bill Webster / WNYT)
The mother of a baby whose disappearance prompted an Amber Alert Sunday
was arraigned on a second-degree manslaughter charge Monday morning in Schenectady City Court.
Persia Nelson, 24, was charged less than a day after authorities found
her 10-month-old baby, Halo Branton, on the General Electric campus. She
was later pronounced dead.
Nelson had been on the GE campus, and told security she claimed she
didn’t know how she got there and that she lost her child, investigators said.
“It took some time, but officers were able to connect an address on
Campbell Avenue to the female, and this ultimately led officers to the
dead end of 12th Street, where they were able to identify where the
female went with her baby in a location where she entered the GE
campus.” Schenectady Police Chief Eric Clifford said.
Nelson dropped the baby down an approximately 8-foot-deep pipe access
area at GE’s main plant, investigators said. Halo was found inside a
utility tunnel structure on the GE campus. The documents say there was
water and mud at the base that caused Halo’s death. The water had come
up to her chest and around her head, but not her face.
The baby was taken to Ellis Hospital. Life-saving measures were
performed. However, she was pronounced dead at 1:24 p.m. Based on an
autopsy, it’s believed she died from exposure and hypothermia,
investigators said.
The mother has no criminal history, but she has another child in
Columbia County who she does not have custody of, prosecutors said.
The judge denied prosecutor Mike Nobles request to remand Nelson to
jail. He set bail at $500,000.
“Everybody can relate to a 1-year-old child being helpless,” said Schenectady Police Chief Eric Clifford. “At the time, the adrenaline’s rushing, you know, we’re motivated to find her, but, you know, after the reality sets in, it’s definitely taking a toll on everybody.”
NewsChannel 13 is following this story. We will have updates on WNYT.com
this afternoon, and our newscasts starting Live at 4.
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/mother-of-baby-found-dead-in-schenectady- charged-in-her-death/
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