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A judge reduced bail Monday for a Kearns woman charged with attempted murder for allegedly dumping her newborn into a trash can in August.

Alicia Marie Englert, 23, on Monday night posted bail, which had been reduced to $25,000.

Englert had been held at the Salt Lake County jail in lieu of $500,000, cash-only bail. But based on a stipulation between prosecutors and the defense, 3rd District Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills reduced the bail to $25,000, which is bondable.

Englert must comply with a list of conditions, which includes checking in daily with Pretrial Services.

Deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney Rob Parrish said that to remain free on bail, Englert also must:

• Have no contact with her parents, who are potential witnesses.

• Live with her brother.

• Have no unsupervised contact with children.

• Have no contact with a boyfriend, whose name came up during a police interview as the potential father of the child.

• Have no contact with her former employers, who may be called as witnesses to her daily ability to function.

Parrish told the judge that the circumstance surrounding the August incident are "unique" to her having given birth, and that Englert likely does not pose a risk to the general public.

But if Englert becomes pregnant again, Parrish said, the prosecution would move to revoke her bail.

Meanwhile, Englert's defense team is expected to file a petition in the next few weeks to inquire into her mental competency.

On Tuesday, the judge set a competency review hearing for Dec. 8.

Hruby-Mills Englert's father, Robert Englert, has insisted his daughter is developmentally disabled and may not understand the gravity of her actions.

But Unified Police officials have said they found no medical evidence that Englert — who graduated from high school, maintains social media accounts and held a job with a car-rental agency — is mentally incompetent.

She is charged with first-degree felony attempted murder for allegedly failing to care for the newborn and, ultimately, leaving it to die in a neighbor's trash can in August. If convicted as charged, Englert would face up to life in prison.

The infant, who survived some 36 hours without food or care and was initially in critical condition, has been placed in the care of the state's Division of Child and Family Services.

Parrish said Monday that DCFS would conduct paternity testing to try to identify the father.

According to court documents, Englert allegedly admitted to police that she gave birth to the baby in the bathroom of her Kearns home. She wrapped the infant in a towel, left her on the floor and went to bed, according to the charges. The next day, Monday, she went to work, leaving the child wrapped in the towel on the floor.

After she returned from work, Englert could see the infant was still alive because her fingers were moving, charging documents state.

The following morning — two days after the child's birth — she put the baby in her neighbor's garbage can at about 5:45 a.m.

"I don't want it," Englert allegedly told police, adding she didn't know she was pregnant until the day she delivered the child.

"She admitted she knew that not providing any care for the baby and discarding the baby in a garbage can was wrong," a police detective wrote. "But said she didn't want her parents to 'freak out' or to know that she'd been pregnant and delivered a baby."

But a convenience-store clerk later told police that Englert often came to the store nearby her home and said she had asked Englert in late July about her pregnancy.

The clerk said Englert said she was due in August.

The morning of Aug. 26, Englert's neighbors discovered the infant after investigating the sounds of what they thought was a kitten crying in a trash can at a home near 5300 South and 5200 West. They found the baby naked and buried under two bags of garbage, police said.

The newborn girl had low body core temperature, a blood-borne infection and was covered in feces when she arrived at the hospital, according to court records. Joanna Beachy, a neonatal intensive-care physician at Primary Children's Hospital, told police that an MRI showed that the baby suffered a mild brain injury due to lack of oxygen, but there was no permanent brain damage.

However, the doctor said that because of the medical conditions the child suffered after birth, she is at an increased risk for developmental problems.shunt@sltrib.com