The household of Alexandra Eckersley launched the next assertion after the 26-year-old was accused of delivering and abandoning a child in a tent simply after midnight on Christmas in Manchester:
We are completely devastated by the occasions that unfolded on Christmas evening when our daughter Allie delivered a child whereas residing in a tent. It is heartbreaking {that a} youngster was born beneath such unthinkable circumstances and in such tragic circumstances. We realized with everybody else from information experiences what occurred and are nonetheless in full shock. We had no prior information of Allie’s being pregnant.
We are extraordinarily grateful to the primary responders in Manchester, NH for saving this harmless new child boy and to the hospital employees for every little thing they’re doing to make sure his well-being.
Allie is our beloved daughter who we adopted at delivery. Though it’s painful to share, we really feel it mandatory to supply higher context of Allie’s circumstances and background. Allie has suffered from extreme psychological sickness her total life. Allie was hospitalized quite a few instances for her sickness and lived in a number of residential applications. We did our best possible to get Allie the entire assist and help humanly doable.
Once Allie grew to become an grownup there was even much less we may do as a result of she was legally free to make her personal choices so long as she was not a hazard to herself or others. Under present legal guidelines, there was merely no approach to drive her to obtain therapy. Nonetheless, we continued to help her as greatest we may.
Since she was 20, Allie selected to dwell on the streets in New Hampshire. As in lots of states, the psychological well being system in New Hampshire is damaged. The state hospital used to have 2,500 psychiatric beds. Now there are lower than 200 for greater than 1.2 million residents and the state was compelled to remove one other 48 beds this fall due to employees shortages. Without sufficient inpatient beds for disaster, therapy and stabilization, a state psychological system fails.
We have all the time provided Allie a path house however she has made different selections. We hope Allie now accepts the therapy she desperately wants for her psychological well being points. We additionally hope that every one those that have heard this tragic story withhold judgment about our daughter till all of the details come out.
We are within the strategy of submitting a guardianship petition in order that we could obtain data and have resolution making with respect to Allie’s son.
We thanks in your help and prayers for this lovely, harmless child boy. We hope individuals perceive what an agonizing state of affairs that is and we respectfully ask for privateness. Accordingly, we can have no additional touch upon this matter in the interim.
The Eckersley Family
Source: www.bostonherald.com”