A South Charleston woman accused of passing out then smothering her infant daughter to death with her body has been arrested.
Leslie Erin Boggs, 25, was arrested Wednesday for the death of her 3-month-old daughter Raynna Rea Boggs. The baby died in May, but detectives only recently were able to make the case against the mother.
She was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after a traffic stop. South Charleston Detective A.R. Gordon said patrol officers had been made aware detectives were looking for Boggs and detained her.
Gordon said detectives had been working on the case since Raynna died in May.
"With the severity of the charge, we wanted to make sure we had a solid case against her," Gordon said. "Accusing a mother of a crime like this -- you want to be righteous in it.
"We didn't want to leave any loose ends and we wanted to make sure we had everything good to go."
South Charleston police were dispatched May 10, 2010 to Boggs' Monroe Street apartment where an infant was said to be in cardiac arrest. When they arrived, the child had already been taken to Thomas Memorial Hospital. Staff there confirmed the child was Raynna Boggs and that the girl had died.
Boggs told Gordon at the hospital that she left the infant alone in a room while she cleaned and when she returned, Raynna had been unresponsive, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
But the officials found evidence of something else. Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Hamada Mahmoud conducted an autopsy on the baby and reported "remarkable facial and anterior upper torso lividity suggestive of unreported accidental overlay," and that the "reported death interval was inconsistent with measured body temperature," the complaint said.
Gordon said the medical examiner's findings contradicted the woman's statement.
Boggs' husband Thomas Myers, who was her boyfriend at the time of the incident, came forward in January with information on the infant's death. Gordon said the man had been cooperative all along, but that his statements in January were instrumental in building the case.
"I think at first he didn't want to potentially get her in trouble, but he knew wrong was wrong and that what happened to the baby wasn't right," Gordon said.
Myers, who was not the baby's father but married Boggs in the months immediately after the infant died, told detectives he had been at the apartment with the woman the morning of Raynna's death. He said Boggs had been drinking and using drugs the night before and that she had passed out on the floor. Myers told detectives he saw the baby's feet sticking out from under Boggs when he walked around Boggs' body.
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