Dead baby found on trash facility conveyor belt

LA PUENTE, Calif. A dead newborn was found at a trash collection and recycling facility in La Puente on Monday.

A worker discovered the baby on a conveyor belt while he was sorting garbage at Athens Services on East Valley Boulevard around 2 p.m., CBS Station KCBS reports.

The company uses conveyor belts to help workers separate trash into recycling containers.

The baby was taken to the coroner's office for an autopsy.

Sheriff's homicide detectives from the City of Industry are investigating the incident.

[RiverBoatQueen]

This mother could have dropped her newborn, precious BABY off at any Fire or Police Department or Hospital Emergency Room and there would be no legal consequence. As long as the infant is unhurt, there will be no jail, no hassles. All she had to do was give her baby up to a nurse or a fireman or a cop, or even hand it off to a nursing student. WE ARE ALL TRAINED TO TAKE THE BABY!!! My God. Here was a precious, precious life that was wasted like it was nothing more than an empty can. How horrible! I cry over the injustice of this event. The mother should have known better.
If there are any new mothers out there who have just given birth and have no way to support the new baby, PLEASE, for the love of GOD, hand the child over to another adult. You carried your baby for the term; now set it free and give it to somebody who will take care of it long enough to find it a good and stable and loving home.
Any Emergency room will take your unwanted baby, or any fire department or any police department. JUST BRING YOUR BABY and drop the baby into our waiting arms!!! Walk away and live the rest of your life guilt-free.

[nygurl1]

OR maybe she was very young, the baby was born dead, and/or she panicked?

[HiDawn]

To only write about this crime without taking the opportunity to talk about the Baby Safe Haven law is tragic. This is your chance to make a life or death difference in the future for the youngest, most vulnerable of all, a newborn baby.

Maybe you can help make the public aware of Baby Safe Haven law? Every state in the country has one, though they may differ in some of the details.

Baby Safe Haven laws offer a safe, legal, option for a desperate parent in crisis. The laws say a parent may hand an unharmed baby, 3 days old or younger, with a staff person on duty at any hospital or fire station. If you or someone you know may be hiding a pregnancy or have a baby they don't feel they can care for, call the national safe haven 24-hour crisis hotline 888-510-BABY (2229) for confidential help.

Dawn Geras
Vice President, National Safe Haven Alliance
Phone: [phone]
www.SafeHavenAlliance.org
www.facebook.com/The-National-Safe-Haven-Alliance

[ampsanne]

What a sick society we have become by just tossing babies aside. Animals treated their babies better than this. Doesn't anyone value human life anymore? Apparently not. Sick people

[margroks]

What horrible person would just toss a baby in the trash? Appalling.