The woman was later charged with strangling the baby's mother and cutting the newborn from her womb. The Cook County Sheriff"s Office said Monday that it will ask the state's child welfare agency to determine if a suburban Chicago hospital acted properly in the case. The hospital issued a statement Monday saying that it was cooperating with local authorites but would have no comment. "We will ask DCFS to advise if this unspeakable tragic set of facts was reportable," she said in a statement. ___This version of the story corrects that Cara Smith is chief policy officer at the sheriff's office, not the child welfare agency.

Source: Fox News May 21, 2019 02:03 UTC