Detective: Baby Justice's Mother Possibly Coming Down From Meth Binge When Infant Disappeared

WOODLAND (CBS13) — A mother accused of killing her baby and leaving him in a slough appeared in court Tuesday.

Baby Justice was found dead in February, and a judge has to decide if there is enough evidence for his mother to stand trial.

Samantha Green was crying at times as she listened to recordings of herself speaking to police. Police described the bizarre story she told, some of which they believed was the result of drugs.

Green wept as she listened to a recording of herself speaking to a police detective after stumbling out of the Ridge Cut Slough in Knights Landing—the same slough where her baby was found dead the next morning.

She told the detective that she went to it searching for the baby's father, Frank Rees, who she thought might be seeing another woman and may be in the area.

She said she may have experienced a dream where a man with light hair and big glasses came up to her. She could not recall where Baby Justice was. The detective believed Green may have been coming down from a meth binge. The detective said she appeared to have purposeful selective memory, as police frantically searched for the baby.

Another detective described when the baby was found the next morning in a tree in the slough wearing a light onesie, with his fist clenched and his head tilted.

Eventually Green would also tell police that she was sexually assaulted by someone she may have known, naming a specific suspect that we have chosen not to the police say that story did not make sense, and the suspect had an alibi.

Green had used method in the past with the father who has now been charged in this case. She admitted according to testimony on Tuesday to using meth at least once since the baby had been born.

Members of the Green family were here in attendance on Tuesday, and they did not give any comment when they left the courthouse. The preliminary hearing will continue tomorrow.

It has been very dramatic between the public defender and prosecutors. Both seem to be very upset with each other over a number of documents in this case and every other moment, there seems to be an objection so we will surely see the same tomorrow.