Jeanette EdmondsPonchatoula Police Department/Facebook Tap Here To Add Us Weekly As A Trusted Source Add as a preferred source on Google A Louisiana woman is facing criminal charges after police said she tried to abandon her 8-year-old son three times in one day, including at a cemetery and then at a farm. Officers with the Ponchatoula Police Department began investigating the repeated abandonment on Sunday, March 1, when they were called about a boy left alone at a laundromat in the city, the department said in a Tuesday, March 3 news release.