PAPAZOO

ENCINO, N.M. — The body of a 15-month-old boy was found in a field Wednesday, a day after his mother told authorities that she lost him when she fell asleep stargazing.

Search and rescue crews found the body of Richy Willis-Brown near a highway junction in Torrance County in central New Mexico, according to state police Lt. Rick Anglada.

Anglada said an autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death.

“Right now we don’t know if the child died of exposure or any other trauma,” he said.

Deputies said the boy and his mother had been seen along U.S. 60 before dawn Tuesday. The woman, wearing no clothes, showed up a few hours later in Encino and told authorities her baby was missing.

The woman told investigators she was driving through the area when she decided to stop, take off her clothes and star gaze. She said she fell asleep and when she woke up, her son was gone.

The boy’s mother was in an Albuquerque hospital Wednesday. Authorities were considering filing charges against the woman, whose name has not been released.

Papazoo Commentary:

I feel for this woman, I mean when you get the urge to lie on your back in the New Mexico desert naked you just have to. Ok, back to reality. What is this woman smoking. You have to be smoking some good stuff to strip naked to look at stars and forget about your son. I say we take her out into the middle of the desert and forget her.