A newborn baby girl was found abandoned on a beach in Hawaii, according to reports.

The 8-pound child was “abandoned immediately after birth,” state Department of Human Services Director Patricia McManaman said, according to the Star Advertiser newspaper. She was found just before midnight on Sunday.

McManaman said the girl was “doing quite well” and drinking formula, HawaiiNewsNow.com reported.

Both reports said the child was found on Sandy Beach by a 21-year-old woman, who took her to a local medical center. The woman is not a suspect, according to police.

The mother has not been identified, HawaiiNewsNow.com said.

Jonathan Kamai, a Sandy Beach regular, told the website that he was glad “the child had an angel that came and helped her out.”

“It would have to be something tragic for someone to just leave their newborn here," he added. “Just as a father, how somebody could actually just do that kind of stuff – it's just crazy.”

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The Plainfield, N.J. home where 3-month-old twins were found dehydrated after their mother died days earlier.

Authorities in northern New Jersey say 3-month-old twins were found dehydrated but responsive in an apartment with the body of their mother.

Plainfield police say the discovery was made Wednesday by officers responding to a call from a relative concerned that he hadn't heard from the woman in days.

Police say they found 39-year-old Alice M. Jackson dead on her bed.

An autopsy is pending but police say she appeared to have died of natural causes. They believe she had been dead for days when she was found. 

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Officials said the babies are rehydrated and able to feed again but are staying in the hospital for observation. 

The discovery comes a week after police in nearby Union discovered a malnourished toddler chain-locked inside an apartment with his dead mother.

NEW YORK -- A woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunged eight stories out of an apartment window to her death in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, but the baby survived, police said.

Cynthia Wachenheim was found on the street with her son, 10-month-old Keston, near her arms. A police officer who responded took the baby to a hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.

Police discovered a seven-page suicide note under a bed in the apartment Wachenheim shared with her husband. In the note, the 45-year-old Wachenheim said she recognized what she was about to do was "evil" but she was concerned about how her child was developing, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

It was unclear whether the baby, who neighbors said was an only child, had any mental or physical problems.

A window to the West Harlem apartment was wide open, and there were no signs of struggle inside, police said. There were no safety bars on the apartment's windows. Surveillance footage showed Wachenheim's husband leaving the apartment about an hour before her plunge from the window with the baby.

'I heard a scream'
Area resident Steven Dominguez, 18, was walking to a grocery store with his mother, Adelina Dominguez, when he saw the woman fall. He said the baby bounced off her body, breaking some of the impact of the fall, before hitting the ground nearby.

"I heard a scream like a yell," Dominguez said. "When I got closer, I saw the baby crying."

He said the baby was face-down.

"I was shocked," he said. "I couldn't believe it."

Dominguez said his mother went to pick up the baby, but an emergency response person told her to stand back.

The apartment is in a relatively new building facing Jackie Robinson Park. A crowd of onlookers had gathered nearby Wednesday afternoon, awaiting the medical examiner's office, which would determine the official cause of the woman's death.

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Resident Yaa Dwamena, 32, said she's lived in the building for several years and as long as she's been there she's seen Wachenheim.

"She was very nice, very friendly, very warm," Dwamena said.

She said that the last time she saw Wachenheim was last week.

"I wouldn't have thought anything was wrong with her," she said. "They were a happy-looking family. I wouldn't think anything like this would happen."

Wachenheim went to law school at Columbia University, and her father was a state police spokesman before his death in 2011. She worked in state Supreme Court in Manhattan doing legal research for judges, court officials said.

"We are all deeply saddened about this tragic incident," state courts spokesman David Bookstaver said. "Our thoughts are with Ms. Wachenheim's family."

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Joann Goulet LePage is accused of giving her 14-year-old daughter margaritas during dinner.

A 51-year-old mom from East Hampton, Conn., has been arrested after allegedly giving her daughter multiple margaritas to the point where she became sick during dinner last month.

Middletown police went to 200 Main St. at 7:21 p.m. on Feb. 27 to investigate a report of an intoxicated female and found a 14-year-old girl who appeared to be drunk and her mother, Joann Goulet LePage, 51, of East Hampton, police said.

As police spoke with the mom and daughter, the teen said her mother gave her several alcoholic beverages as they were having meals, police said.

Police said a witness also reported seeing LePage giving the teen several margaritas, police said.

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The teen was transported to Middlesex Hospital for treatment.

LePage was charged with risk of injury to a child because of the girl’s age and medical condition.

Police contacted the state Department of Children and Families and contacted the teen’s father.

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A 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman abandoned her 8-month-old daughter in the woods with the hopes of getting “a fresh start,” according to police.

Jennifer Cutruzzula was spotted by a neighbor walking into the woods with her child, only to emerge alone. The neighbor called police and went into the woods and found the baby girl on a muddy hillside next to a bottle of milk.

“She walked into this area with the intention of abandoning the child,” said Alleghany County District Attorney Stephen Zappala.

Cutruzzula told police she left her child because she wanted “a fresh start,” according to a criminal complaint.

Authorities say the infant is fine after being treated and released from a local hospital. The baby is currently in the custody of Child and Youth Services, according to WPXI-TV Pittsburgh.

Cutruzzula is charged with endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering. She is being held on $50,000 bail.

Zappala said the Pittsburgh-area woman will undergo a mental evaluation.

“I have never see anything like this. I don’t know how anyone could leave a child in the woods and walk away,” said Zappala.

A Florida woman was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for doing nothing to intervene when her husband fatally stabbed one of their sons and wounded another.

Deanna Beauchamp De Jesus, 38, of Port Orange, pleaded guilty in her aggravated manslaughter case as part of an agreement struck with the Broward State Attorney’s Office. Her prison sentence will be followed by five years of probation.

Prosecutors faulted De Jesus for failing to act as a protector and intervene earlier this year, when her husband, William De Jesus, stabbed 9-year-old Josiah to death and tried to kill their other son, now 8, inside an RV in Deerfield Beach.

William De Jesus killed himself along with Josiah and Ovila Plante, 76, one of the owners of the RV that the killer randomly chose.

Broward Assistant State Attorney Gregg Rossman said he thinks De Jesus’ sentence was a “fair and just result.”

“I don't think life in prison for her part of the crime, quite honestly, was appropriate,” Rossman said in an interview after Friday’s hearing.

De Jesus' defense lawyer, Terrence Moons, said his client understood the terms of the sentencing agreement.

“She's OK, all things considered,” Moons said. “And she can move on with her life.”

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Two children found sitting by the side of Interstate 90 in western Idaho Tuesday told sheriff’s deputies that their mother had left them there after running out of gas, officials said.

Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the boys, aged three and six, said their mother had walked them to the spot on I- 90 where they were found. The kids said they had been taken there when it was still dark and raining.

She then took a ride to a gas station between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. local time (8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. ET), the statement said. A construction supervisor working nearby found the children at about 9:10 a.m. local time (11:10 a.m. ET). 

'Argument with her boyfriend'
The woman was arrested on a negligent driving warrant at a house in Spokane Valley, Wash., on Tuesday night after deputies received a tip-off that she was there, NBC station KHQ reported. Kootenai and Spokane counties are on either side of the state line.

KHQ said the mother would most likely face more charges in Kootenai.

The sheriff’s office statement said the woman told the person who gave her the ride that “she had been in an argument with her boyfriend and just needed to get to a phone to call for a ride.”

The children – after being cleared by emergency medical providers – were placed in foster care.

KHQ reported that the woman was seen with her children at a Walmart near the state line Monday night. Someone called police saying she was acting strangely and she was checked out by medics.

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A woman found dead with her three children at a ranch in Missouri was a "very good mom" who was always caring for her daughters, neighbors say.

The woman and the girls -- Christine Adewunmi, 37, Lauren, 8, Samantha, 6, and Kate, 3 -- were found Saturday afternoon near a SUV at the Blue Springs Ranch campground in Bourbon, Mo., media reports say. Each victim was shot once, and a handgun was located nearby.

Evidence at the scene suggests that it was a murder-suicide, though the investigation was ongoing, Crawford County Sheriff Randy Martin told msnbc.com.

The highway patrol was still trying to track down some leads, such as where the handgun came from, he said.

“We’re pretty confident that this was a murder suicide … we’re not looking for anybody else right now,” he said.

When asked if authorities had an indication of what the motive could have been, Martin said: “No, not that I can give out at this point.”

Leonard Adewunmi had reported his family missing about 6 p.m. Friday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Neighbor Lisa Stemler, 46, said she saw Christine Adewunmi Friday afternoon, and they waved to one another.

“That smile on her face ...,” Stemler, 46, told the newspaper. “I have her face plastered in my mind.”

Stemler said Adewunmi was a stay-at-home mother who could be seen shuttling her daughters to the Girl Scouts and sports practices.

“Those kids were her life,” Stemler said, noting that she didn't know the husband as well: “None of us really saw him a whole lot.”

Leonard Adewunmi, 42, is listed on LinkedIn as a managing partner of CRI Commercial Properties, which says it owns and manages several apartment and commercial units in the St. Louis area, the Post-Dispatch reported.

Msnbc.com's Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.

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