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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A teenage mother was charged Sunday for allegedly tossing her newborn baby into a garbage chute.

The baby survived, but police were still trying to find out Sunday why the disturbing crime happened, reports CBS 2′s Derricke Dennis.

The newborn baby was reportedly thrown down the trash chute in a plastic trash bag. It was believed to have fallen eight stories, straight into a compactor, in a high-rise building in Brooklyn’s Walt Whitman Housing Project.

1010 WINS’ Sonia Rincon has more on the disturbing crime


Authorities said the boy miraculously survived thanks to the trash cushioning his fall.

“I’m sorry for the baby,” neighbor Aida Morales said.

Police surrounded the public housing high-rise at 102 Cumberland Way immediately after the discovery was made shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday.

Authorities took photographs outside while investigators combed for clues and questioned residents inside.

Police told CBS 2 that the child’s 18-year-old mother was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

Residents said they couldn’t believe that one of their neighbors could do such a thing.

“I don’t know what to say,” neighbor Simone Smith said. “I don’t know if she should be punished; I don’t know the whole story.”

Others were searching their mind for a reason for the disturbing incident.

“I don’t know man, had to have been a young girl, probably had a lot of problems,” resident William Jones said.

“Maybe depression…I don’t know,” Morales said.

The investigation centered on a basement door, where the trash chute ends and where police said a worker heard the baby crying.

“Common sense would have told her, if [she] didn’t want it, leave it in the hospital, have it put up for adoption, you know,” Jones said. “But doing something like that – it’s crazy.”

The infant was being treated at Brooklyn Hospital. He was expected to survive the fall.

New York State has a “safe haven” law that allows a parent to give up a baby within 30 days of birth, no questions asked, at local hospitals, firehouses and police stations.

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  • What-a-dum-%*^#

    Some of the comments on here are crazy. The “child” is obviously “sick.” Isn’t is possible she’s just not a good person? This was not some 12 year old child who had no clue what to do. At 18, and living in the projects (it does make a diiff. because kids in the projects see and experience far more at younger ages) she knew what she was doing. She could have taken that baby to a police station, hospital, church, firehouse, etc. Instead, she chose to throw the baby down a trash chute like yesterdays garbage. I don’t care what color your skin is, where you live and who you are… anyone who can do this to an innocent baby is DISGUSTING and needs to go to prison!

  • FedUp

    The “age of reason” is seven years old; this woman is EIGHTEEN, and people speak of her as a “child.” Unless she is mentally-challenged with a brain not developed to the age of 7, she knows right from wrong. Murder is wrong everywhere. Don’t make excuses for vicious murderers.

    • PeopleNeed2LearnDaFacts

      @FedUp I know of this girl and she is mentally-challenged.

  • Peter

    Toss this MF Cu%t in the incinerator!!!!

  • Brownsville Bud

    It’s great to be able to say what you want anonymously, and not get your ass kicked! Real Empowering.

  • Earl Jefferson

    Silly Monkey’s!

    • Brownsville Bud

      Excuse me?

  • Lillie

    This is an absolute outrage. As a mother of three adult children I am totally disgusted, where was this young girls’ mother? Please don’t tell me she had no clue she was pregnant. She made the horrifc decision to place her baby in an incinerator, how terrible. She is 18 yet still a child mentally and made the adult decision to lay down with a boy, have unprotected sex and become pregnant.
    This generation is far different from when my children were being raised, everything and everywhere you look is sex oriented. As far as the mother she should have taking her daughter to GYN the moment she looked as though she was interested in sex. This girl and her baby that she discarded will forever be scarred by this situation. Thank God he survived, perhaps now someone who is yearning to have a child will now have the opportunity.

    • Cheeses K. Reist

      Lillie,

      My guess is that the 18 year old is obese, and that ‘hid’ the pregnancy. I hope this kid never learns about his ‘mom’.

  • Bell Toller

    And where is the baby’s Daddy?

    • popo

      ..fess up bell head. That’s your ‘hood.

  • David Goldstein

    The more babies she have the more welfare she gets.

    • Brownsville Bud

      why are you automatically assuming this person is on Welfare?

    • Brownsville Bud

      David Bronzesteen, your a brave soul..

      • UPTOWN HOMIE

        I’M A BLACK NEW YORKER, AND I WILL NEVER GOING INTO BROWNSVILLE. THEY ARE FROM ANOTHER PLANET CALLED LET’S ROB AND KILL.

  • SXB

    It is Truly a Gosh darn shame when Girls do things like this when there are so much other options. I had my daughter April at 17 and during high school at least 65% of girls had a child or 2 abortions!. I was scared w| April , alone , born of a single parent myself . But when I had my daughter it was not the rock bottom you hear it is . Yes yu have to give up some things but in a way it set me on the right path and put me back on the track I had fell off of yrs ago … Never return that boy to his mother nor anybody in that family . Send girl to jail and take every single one of her children away from her if she ever gets pregnant again … If her motherhood didn’t come to her w| him it aint never going to come .

    • The Dawn is Coming

      That’s it! ship her off to SPACE CAMP for the summer, EVERY SUMMER. Then exile her to the Moon to do time.

  • carlrosen

    So what? she can go and make another one in another 9 months. Why does she have to be “sick” or depressed. Some people are just no good. Look at Casey Anthony. “Baby? Forget the baby, I wanna paaaaaaaaaaaaaaar-ty!

  • norman b

    A sad situation…it is evident that this 18yr old “child” is sick…What support did she have? To be called an animal is wrong, she’s definitely got some mental problems…most animals will protect their young even if it means being killed themselves.

  • Rynner

    You are a SICK F*CK DanTe. Do us all a favor, and take a serrated blade to your own wrists.

  • screenmates

    She could have just given the baby to a church, firehouse, police station, etc. Why the heck throw the baby down the trash chute? Some judges have passed orders for such mothers to undergo surgeries so that they will never be able to make another baby. Charged for murder – why not??

    • sara

      agreed

  • sue

    If our society stopped treating little babies and children like animals, and started treating them like humans, than this “teen”mother would’ve gotten “murder 1″ and would serve 25 yrs. But instead, she will get government sponsored psychologist, welfare checks and all benefits our young generation needs not to be productive members of our society.

    • Me

      ..and at some point, she will be given custody of the child she tried to kill.

    • badman

      our society mistreats animals, to begin with. It does not treat babies and children like animals. really, what are you talking about? you’re an idiot.

  • T. Florentine

    It’s funny how when young girls in surburban communities make tragic mistakes like this they are not called or referred to as animals, but scared or truamatized young women. From the projects there animals? It is a sad case completely for mother and child.Thank God, the baby survived. Hopefully, his mother will get the mental/social help she needs. Its tragic for both!

    • Diva

      At T. Florentine, you are telling the truth on this one. I can name a few cases where the girls killed their child and some even walked from it because they came from a prominent family. Go figure

      • Realistically Speaking

        T. Florentine & Diva,

        Untrue. Here on this ‘forum’ the racist & stupid remarks come early and often. When this crime happens in the suburbs you better believe the perpetrators are called animals and worse, as well they should be.

  • career

    It is a terrible thing for anyone to do to a child. Teenage girls who are not counseled regarding the responsibility of parenting are faced with reality when they give birth. They often realize the nurturing of an infant is 24/7 and they are often left to face that reality alone.

  • mak s

    where is the baby’s father?
    im sure it would decrease the chance of this incident if baby father is available!

  • Ricardo Flores

    “I don’t know what to say,” neighbor Simone Smith said. “I don’t know if she should be punished; I don’t know the whole story.”

    I’d like to ask Simone Smith if she’d say the same if her grandchild were thrown down a chute. The 18 year old animal deserves an attempted murder conviction. Actually, she really deserves a 45 through her head.

    • Diva

      So easy for a man to say…. No she shouldn’t get 45 years and she is not an animal, you damn fool.

      • TCB

        You are absolutely right. An animal wouldn’t toss their new born down a trash shoot.

      • Jody

        Silly Animal Momkey!

      • Genie

        “Actually, she really deserves a 45 through her head.”

        Diva, where did you get 45 years out of that statement?

        Ricardo, it’s remarks like that which give gun owners a bad name. An attempted murder conviction will do until she arrives at judgment day.

  • Chuck A.

    I’m gratified that people find it to be an outrage that a mother would dispose of her unwanted baby by throwing it in the garbage. But, I wonder why there is no outrage over the thousands of unborn babies who are disposed of in garbage bags after abortions each day. Is it merely the fact that it is legal to kill babies before they are born? If the government some day decides that it is legal to kill babies up to one week after birth, would we then find this case not to be of any concern. Wake up America, abortion is no different than what this troubled mother did to her child. The only difference is this baby had a face we could see, while babies killed by abortion are faceless and nameless…

  • Men’s Rights

    How convenient that women can walk away from their responsibilities as parents with this ‘Safe Haven’ law but if a man does the same thing for the same reasons, he’s a ‘deadbeat’. Why can a woman decide that she doesn’t want or isn’t ready to be a parent but a man can’t?

    • prof

      Thank you exactly.

    • Diva

      Men do it all the time and it has nothing to do with the Safe Haven Laws… hint…my dad walk out on us, I never met my daddy,…etc.

    • badman

      funny when guys talk about “men’s rights.” so wrapped up in their angry, limp-d1ck little world to try to imagine what it’s like to be the underdog.

      when a man walks away from his family, the woman is left to provide. a whole lot of women are out there, taking care of kids on their own bc the guy left. If the woman’s at the end of her rope, the safe haven laws protect her.

      this has nothing to do with “men’s rights.” you can’t possibly put yourself in these women’s shoes. get over yourself.

    • HARLEM GOING HAM

      GOOD POINT.

    • Genie

      Women who use the “Safe Haven” law usually do so because they have been abandoned by the great guys who impregnate them.

      The “Safe Haven” law is for the children, not the parents. I imagine some babies are left by 2 parents who for some reason cannot accept the responsibility of the child.

      Your reasoning is flawed at best, and non-existent at worst.

    • popo

      Yes, that IS a sad fact. Abstain from the act and neither will end up paying for playing.

  • Verndale Buchanan

    “I don’t know what to say,” neighbor Simone Smith said. “I don’t know if she should be punished; I don’t know the whole story.” With this mentality being prevalent in the projects, how can any thinking person be surprised. Not only should this 18 year old mutant be punished, her ability to reproduce should be disabled and she should be imprisoned for life.

    • TCB

      It’s called a project mentality or ghetto perception. It’s this type of attitude that continues to flourish and lay root to the problems in these communities.

      • Dr. C

        You are in denial TCB for suggesting that murder is limited to certain communities. Does that opinion make you fell better about yourself?

        Perhaps an education is in order here for you to visualize the world through CLEAR lenses?

  • Wuyanbu Zutali

    Who can make any sense of this?

    • badman

      certainly not the morons who post their self-hatred-inspired vitriol on this board.

  • vik

    The mother and anyone else involved should not even be arrested. Bullet to the head of everyone involved and then drop the body off at the landfill. I dont care how young or old they are, black or white, sane or so call crazy.

    Trying to kill a baby means death on the spot. Same punishment for any liberal that comes in her defense.

    This is a perfect example for judge dread style punishment.

    • Pam

      Well said

      • jbrutal

        I’ll bet vik and Pam both call themselves “Christians.” Jesus is quoted as saying, “let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.”

        the hypocrisy is so thick you can walk on it. “Christians” – what a joke. What you really need is medication.

  • Momma Deb

    Now if only someone can find the mother, wrap her in a plastic bag and send her down the same chute.

  • Teresa Radwan

    HOW SAD HAS THE WORLD BECOME, WHEN A WOMAN CAN GIVE BIRTH TO HER FLESH AND BLOOD AND FEEL NOTHIN.
    THIS JUST SHOWS THE SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS OUR WORLD IS IN

    • badman

      she felt nothinG? were you there? your presumptuous arrogance is another big part of the “sad state of affairs our world is in.”

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