STODDARD COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - A Minnesota woman is accused of abandoning her baby at a motel in southeast Missouri.

Elizabeth McArthur was charged with two felonies, first-degree abandonment of a child and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

Her bond was set at $20,000 cash only. She has an arraignment scheduled for Tuesday morning, June 10.

According to court documents, officers responded to a motel around 8:30 a.m. on June 7 for a report of a 1-year-old child being abandoned in the parking lot.

A man told officers that a woman, later identified as McArthur, was outside the motel and told him she needed to grab a diaper from her vehicle. He said the woman got in her vehicle and left the parking lot, abandoning the child.

According to investigators, the woman later return

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