Woman Charged with Kidnapping Baby Found in Iowa
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 4:05pm
AP
TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged a Denver woman with kidnapping a newborn from a southern Wisconsin home.
U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil filed the charge against Kristin Smith on Friday afternoon, hours after an Iowa police chief discovered the nearly week-old Kayden Powell alive and well in a plastic storage bin outside a West Branch, Iowa, gas station.
The newborn disappeared from the Town of Beloit house where he was staying with his mother early Thursday morning.
Police arrested Smith hours later at a gas station about a half-mile from the station where the newborn was found.
Smith faces life in prison if she's convicted.