Woman Arrested For Allegedly Putting Baby In Oven

Police arrested a woman for allegedly putting her 11-month-old baby girl in the gas oven at her apartment along Kirkman Road in Orlando. According to police, the baby's uncle called 911 on Monday after finding the baby in an oven that was turned on.

READ:Police Department Charging Affidavit (PDF file)

Sharlyn Singh, 29, lived with her boyfriend, who is the father of the child, and the boyfriend's brother at the Metro Place Apartments in MetroWest, according to police. Singh and her boyfriend were having a dispute, police said, and the boyfriend was in the process of moving his belongings out of the apartment.

Email News Sign-Up Multiple Choices - Auto sign-up (LEFT ALIGN) GET WFTV NEWS HEADLINES BY EMAIL 9 a.m. Headlines Noon Headlines 4 p.m. Headlines News of the Strange Breaking News Alerts While the baby's father was downstairs moving, the baby's uncle told police, Singh left the apartment and he heard the baby crying, but couldn't find the child. According to the police report, the uncle asked Singh, who was standing next to the oven, where the baby was, but she left the apartment without answering. Police said the uncle then noticed the oven was on and found the baby inside.

Police said that, when they responded, they did find greasy marks from the inside of the oven on the baby.

Singh, according to the police report, fled the scene, but was located nearby and was taken into custody. The police report also indicated that the child's father said the mother had made threats against the child two or three previous times.

Singh was in the Orange County jail Tuesday afternoon, charged with first-degree aggravated child abuse.

The father, Eyewitness News has learned, is trying to get the baby girl back from the Department of Children and Families.

The baby is okay. In fact, there is some question as to whether the mother turned on the top burners of the oven or was actually heating the inside of the oven. Either way, police said, the child's first danger in that situation would have been suffocation.