After conducting a final sweep Wednesday afternoon, investigators said the home of the Ocean City woman accused of killing her fetus before delivering it last week is no longer a crime scene but will remain under police surveillance for the protection of her family.
The three-day dig of the yard and lot adjacent to the apartment of Christy Freeman, 37, produced only a “few nickels and a marble,” detectives said. Freeman was charged Thursday with causing her 26-week-old boy to be stillborn and stashing it beneath a bathroom vanity, but she has not been charged in connection with the deaths of three other fetuses found wrapped in plastic in her bedroom trunk and recreational vehicle.
Ocean City police spokesman Barry Neeb said Freeman?s boyfriend, Raymond Godman Jr., and her four children are free to move back into the Sunset Drive apartment. Patrols in the neighborhood will increase after four cabs from the couple?s taxi company were vandalized earlier this week.
“Police are not taking a backseat; they have a lot of investigation to do yet,” Neeb said. “We did receive word from the medical examiner they are conferring with other experts on the remains.”
Neeb said a report is not expected until next week.
Charging Freeman under a 2005 law protecting “viable” fetuses, Worcester County state?s attorney Joel Todd must prove Freeman caused the baby to be stillborn and that the infant could survive outside the womb. His office said Wednesday he is not commenting on the case.
Freeman, a Sykesville native, had 19 bruises on her inner thighs, stomach, left leg and right forearm, according to charging documents.
“According to her, they all came naturally from different accidents and incidents,” Neeb said. “She said none were of a criminal nature.”
Freeman was being held without bond in the Worcester County jail awaiting grand jury indictment proceedings. Her attorney, county public defender Burton Anderson, did not return phone calls by press time.
