21-year-old migrant woman arrested for allegedly dumping newborn baby in hospital trash can



A migrant woman was arrested on Saturday after she was accused of dumping her newborn baby in a hospital trash can.

Lucia Garcia, 21, was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment, according to police.

The New York Post reported that Garcia is originally from Mexico, but migrated to the United States roughly 10 months ago, and is seeking asylum. She currently lives in Staten Island with her father. Her mother still lives in Mexico.

Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, an off-duty New York Police Department officer working a side job at the Staten Island University Hospital spotted Garcia – who was soaked in blood. The NYPD officer notified his department about the blood-soaked woman.

Police officers and a hospital custodian reportedly heard the cries from a baby. They found a newborn baby in a hospital trash can, police say.

Lucia's father, 41-year-old Ambrosio Garcia, claimed that he brought his daughter to the hospital on Friday night because she wasn't feeling well. He wasn't aware that his daughter was pregnant, and that she had been hiding her pregnancy from him.

The teary-eyed father told the New York Post, “She said she had her period when she came out of the bathroom. She had a lot of blood on her."

“Then police went into the bathroom, and another man to clean it," he continued. "There was a baby boy in there that they found in the trash can.”

The baby boy was immediately transferred to NYU Langone for medical treatment. The baby is said to be in healthy condition.

The father said police took his daughter into custody after the baby was discovered in the garbage can, and he hadn't talked to her since.

“I feel so bad. I don’t know if she’s okay. I’m sad because I don’t know what I’m going to do," he said. "I don’t have money for a lawyer — I don’t make that much. I’m very sad. I feel bad too. I never thought this would’ve happened.”

Police say the migrant woman was 32 weeks pregnant.

Another mother purportedly threw her baby in a hospital trash can moments after she gave birth, and was charged with first-degree murder in New Mexico last week after the newborn was found dead. Police released bodycam video of an officer confronting the teen as well as her mother about the newborn baby being dumped in the trash.

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Mexican inmates accused of using newborn baby to smuggle drugs inside prison after infant is found dead in a trash can



The discovery of a dead newborn baby inside a trash can at a notorious Mexican prison has fueled speculation that the infant's body was perhaps used to smuggle drugs into the facility.

According to reports from Mexican news outlet El Sol de Puebla, the theory gained traction due, in part, to an unexplained incision in the baby boy's abdomen at the time he was found inside the San Miguel prison in the state of Puebla.

State government officials say the boy was just six days old when he was discovered by an inmate searching for plastic bottles in the trash. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, and state officials reportedly have yet to determine the identity of the young child or his parents.

Vice News reported that the incident flew under the radar for several days until the president of and co-founder of the nonprofit Reinserta, Saskia Niño De Rivera, picked up on it and began investigating.

Reinserta is a group that works with children and adolescents who have been exposed to traumatic situations related to violence in Mexico. Vice reported that the nonprofit works specifically with children who are being raised behind bars with their incarcerated parents and also offers programs that help young offenders reintegrate into society.

De Rivera made the human drug mule allegations during an interview with the media outlet this week.

"Everything looks like the baby entered the prison dead, the minor has an incision in the abdomen that we have not been clear about why that was done, for which it is suspected that it was used to transport drugs inside," she said, according to a Google translation of her remarks.

Her group released a statement this week saying that they "strongly condemn" the state government for allowing the tragic incident to happen.

“The authorities are completely overwhelmed and are complicit in the acts of corruption that are happening inside the prison,” the statement reportedly read.

Reinserta also alleged that San Miguel prison has been taken over by inmates who now produce drugs within the prison walls and regularly bring in female sex workers to service them. The group even suggested that inmates run dog-fighting rings in the prison.

In a recent appearance on Mexican news network Milenio, De Rivera called the state government's response to the incident "absurd," asking, "How can it be that the authorities didn’t realize that a minor entered — alive or dead — and then never came out of the prison?"