Mary Carter

Mary Carter

(Mercer County Prosecutor's Office)

EWING – Prosecutors say a Ewing woman who allegedly was found naked after breaking into a Hamilton business was identified after police found she had signed into her Facebook account on a computer while inside.

During a bail hearing this morning, prosecutors said Mary Carter dressed and fled the business on the 1600 block of Olden Avenue when she was found by an employee the morning of June 30.

While in the building Carter, 26, allegedly pried open an office door and took food out of a cabinet, said Assistant Prosecutor Stacey Geurds.

Prosecutors said Carter was out on bail for custodial interference charges when the alleged burglary took place.

Assistant Prosecutor John Carbonara said Carter had taken her 3-year-old child and fled to Pennsylvania where she was found with the child in a homeless shelter by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and U.S. Marshals.

Carbonara said two weeks earlier, the child's father, who had been granted temporary custody, dropped the child off with Carter for a day of visitation on Feb. 1.

When the father returned that evening to pick up the child, Carbonara said Carter and the child were nowhere to be found.

Geurds said she hopes to set up an interview for Carter with Greater Trenton Behavioral Healthcare to determine whether there are any mental health issues.

In the meantime, Judge Pedro Jimenez Jr. maintained the bails on both cases and ordered another bail hearing be listed again in September.

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