 and endangering the welfare of a child. In a final pretrial hearing yesterday, the prosecution and defense laid down the foundation of their arguments ahead of opening statements. Eckersley was arrested in December 2022 after police found her baby boy on Christmas night in the woods in Manchester's West Side. Prosecutors accuse Eckersley, who was homeless at the time, of abandoning her son in a tent and misleading police about the child's whereabouts.