FARMINGTON – Newborn Joshua Oliver Osborne Jr. is doing “great,” his mother, Donna Enman, said.

The baby, she said, has had a chance to meet his father, who is being held at the county jail.

Enman gave birth to the 7-pound, 19-inch-long boy Oct. 19 at Franklin Memorial Hospital while county corrections officers watched over her.

Enman’s boyfriend, Joshua Osborne, 22, is accused of attempted murder in connection with the shooting of his mother, Janette Osborne, in July.

He remains in jail, held without bail for allegedly shooting his mother in the chest while she hung out clothes in a dispute over the family farm.

Enman, 26, is accused of hindering apprehension or prosecution for allegedly helping Joshua Osborne hide guns and lying to police about his whereabouts after the shooting. She was in custody at the time of the birth.

Osborne, from jail, put up $10,000 cash bail to get Enman released from state custody. The bail came Oct. 20, the day after the baby was born but while she was still at the hospital.

According to court paperwork, Enman’s due date was Oct. 25.

Assistant Jail Administrator Carl Stinchfield said that Enman had gone to the hospital late Oct. 17 with pains and was released from the hospital early Saturday, Oct. 18. It was determined to be false labor, Stinchfield said.

Enman was taken back to the hospital Saturday night and had the baby Sunday.

“It was painful,” Enman said of the delivery. “It was four hours of really hard labor.”

Enman said she is breastfeeding the baby, and he wakes her up every four hours during the evenings to be fed.

“It is hard not having Josh around, and I miss him,” Enman said of her boyfriend.

Her voice broke as she talked, and she started to weep.

A friend that she trusts brought baby Joshua to the jail to meet his dad, she said. Existing bail conditions prohibit contact between the couple except through their lawyers.

Josh was hesitant to hold the baby, she said, but that will change.

It is the first child for the couple.

Enman said her attorney, Philip Mohlar, is working on her being able to go to jail to see her boyfriend.

“I do want everybody to know Josh is a really great person,” Enman said. “I love him a lot.”

Stinchfield said it is unknown how much the birth of the baby, prenatal and other care at the hospital will cost the county.

The county did have to pay about 40 hours of correction officers’ time to watch over Enman at the hospital, Stinchfield said.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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