Las Vegas police have issued an arrest warrant for the mother of twin 8-month-old infant girls found abandoned Aug. 30 in a medical school restroom.
Detricia Miller, age unavailable, is wanted on one count each of willful infliction of child endangerment and willful infliction of child medical neglect for leaving the twins in the bathroom at the University of Nevada School of Medicine on Maryland Parkway.
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When they were found, the infants were hungry, thirsty and wearing soiled diapers, authorities said. The girls also had two medical conditions, severe club feet and umbilical hernias, officials said.
The girls were found in a stroller, which also contained several clean diapers, two bottles of water and a toy airplane.
After they were found, the infants were placed into the custody of Child Protective Services.
Investigators were able to identify Miller as the mother of the children through family members, according to the arrest warrant. Police interviewed her on Sept. 5, but did not issue the warrant until Sept. 14.
During the interview, Miller said the children were hers, according to police. She said she had just been released from jail and "couldn't handle the situation any longer," the arrest warrant notes.
After leaving the twins she took her 4-year-old daughter to a local homeless shelter.
The warrant stated the state's Safe Haven Law, which allows mothers to abandon newborn infants under certain circumstances, does not apply in this case because the children were older than 30 days and they were not left in a hospital, obstetric center or emergency medical care center, nor were they left with a firefighting agency or law enforcement agency, as required under the law.
