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Family: Mom would never have hurt baby

AUBURN - Jolynn Wilson was so protective of her infant son that she slept with him at night and was reluctant to let anyone else hold him, her loved ones said Wednesday.

Family members and friends said Wilson did not have the capacity to harm her infant son, following her arraignment in Auburn City Court. Wilson was arrested Tuesday on the felony charge of criminally negligent homicide for actions police said she took which led to the death of her infant son, John D. Overstreet.

"If she's guilty of anything, it's overprotecting the baby," said Wilson's mother, Evelyn Knapp, who shared her 4 Orchard St. apartment with her 20-year-old daughter and 2 1/2-month-old grandson.

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