ABSTRACT
On 20 May 2000 an American university student, Kelly Angell, aged twenty, was en route to Britain from her parents' home in Portland, Maine, when the plane made a scheduled stop at Logan Airport, Boston. While waiting for her flight to the UK, she gave birth in the ladies' washroom to a baby boy, then severed the umbilical cord with her fingers. The Daily Mail reported that, 'in her distress, she allegedly left the 81b baby boy in a toilet bowl and covered him with tissue paper, believing him to be stillborn'. Kelly Angell then returned to the airport waiting room for her flight. In the meantime, a cleaner found the baby and the police were immediately called to investigate. 1 The lengthy newspaper article featured no direct quotes from Kelly Angell herself, although there were comments from friends of her British boyfriend, Graeme Clifton, aged twenty-one, and from her brother, Jeremy Angell, aged eighteen. Her defence lawyer was quoted as saying that Kelly's parents were traumatized by the events and concerned about their daughter.
