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Newborn Found Inside
Toilet at Ohio Burger King
After Mom Overdoses
By Meredith Digital Staff
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) — Police say a newborn was found inside a toilet at an Ohio Burger King is expected to sur- vive.
The Chillicothe Gazette reports a uthorities found the baby boy while responding to a report about a man passed out in a vehicle at a Burger King in the southern Ohio city of Chillicothe last week.
The caller said a woman who was with the man had gone into the restaurant's bath- room. Police say they found 26- year-old Elizabeth Sanders sitting on the toilet with a baggie of sus- pected heroin on
the floor beside her. Sanders told them she’d had a miscarriage, according to the Miami Herald.
But when author- ities looked between Sanders’ legs and into the toilet bowl, they saw a living newborn child resting face up in the water, the police report said.
Sanders and her newborn were transported sep- arately to the hospital, accord-
ing to police.
The baby was in fair condition and was eventually moved to the hospital’s nurs- ery, the Miami Herald reports. Emergency room officials had to give Sanders Narcan, a drug to reverse over- doses, police said.
Both Sanders and the man, 26- year-old Zachary Frey, who was passed out in the vehicle, face criminal charges.
Man Accused of Killing,
Eating Dead Ex-girlfriend
Deemed Competent For Trial
An Indiana man accused of raping and killing his ex- girlfriend and eat- ing parts of her dead body is now mentally compe- tent to stand trial, a state psychiatrist said Thursday.
Joseph Oberhansley, 35, of Jeffersonville has been commit- ted at the Logansport State Hospital since October, when a judge ruled that he wasn’t competent to stand trial for the 2014 killing of girlfriend Tammy Jo Blanton.
Prosecutors allege Oberhansley broke into the Jeffersonville home of Blanton in September 2014, and that he raped her, fatally stabbed her and ate parts of her body.
“This matter has been going on for four years now, and it’s high time that the victim’s family saw justice done,” Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Jeremy Mull told the Courier
Journal after the
hearing.
The letter from the psychiatrist filed with Clark County Circuit Court noted that Oberhansley’s competency has been restored since he was com- mitted there last October to under- go competency restoration. In some of his early court appearances after his arrest, Obserhansley had outbursts in court and said his name was Zeus, WAVE3 reported.
Oberhansley’s attorneys request- ed in court Thursday to have a month to talk with him and form an opinion on his competency. During the hearing, Oberhansley spoke up, telling the judge he need-
ed to fire his attor- neys, according to the Courier Journal.
“They’re trying to control my thoughts,” he said in court. “They’re trying to control my mind.”
Judge Vicki Carmichael told him he needed to work with his attor- neys, and sched- uled another hear- ing on Sept. 21 to discuss the matter.
Prosecutors have previously said they will seek the death penalty for Blanton’s killing. Before his arrest in 2015, Oberhansley was free on parole for a previous killing when he was a teenager, according to WAVE3.