22 May 2011
A newborn baby survived after being thrown into a trash compactor, police revealed today.
A Brooklyn superintendent heard cries coming from a plastic bag in his building, and called police at 9:20am.
Responding officers say they found a newborn baby inside a bag attached to the trash chute at the Walt Whitman Houses projects.
They said they did not know how far the child fell, but suggested the plastic bag may have broken his fall.
Police say they took the baby to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment, and say he is currently in 'stable condition'.
MailOnline.com asked a New York Police Department spokesperson if they had been able to identify the child's name.
She said: 'He’s a newborn, he probably doesn’t even have a name'.
The police spokesperson said the investigation is currently ongoing, so she couldn't share any details.
Officers are thought to be canvassing the neighbourhood and area hospitals, searching for information about the child and his parents, who are not known.
Regarding whoever put the baby in the chute, a local resident, Tisha Holmes, 26, told the New York Daily News: 'That's just sad and pitiful. They need to burn in hell, that's what they need to do.
'People are shocked here. They could've given it to anybody. Ain't nobody in their civil mind would do that'.
'I've been living here for 30 years, nothing ever happened like this before - never'.
The Walt Whitman Houses are located at 287 Myrtle Avenue in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York, where they are bordered by St. Edward's Street and Park and Carlton Avenues.
They consist of 15 buildings, all 6 or 13-stories tall, with 1,636 apartments housing about 4,276 people.
The 18.44-acre complex was built in 1944, and is named after the great American poet Walt Whitman.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389759/Newborn-baby-SURVIVES-tossed-Brooklyn-trash-compactor-Walt-Whitman-House-projects.html#ixzz1NAWvXpHD
A newborn baby survived after being thrown into a trash compactor, police revealed today.
A Brooklyn superintendent heard cries coming from a plastic bag in his building, and called police at 9:20am.
Responding officers say they found a newborn baby inside a bag attached to the trash chute at the Walt Whitman Houses projects.
They said they did not know how far the child fell, but suggested the plastic bag may have broken his fall.
Police say they took the baby to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment, and say he is currently in 'stable condition'.
MailOnline.com asked a New York Police Department spokesperson if they had been able to identify the child's name.
She said: 'He’s a newborn, he probably doesn’t even have a name'.
The police spokesperson said the investigation is currently ongoing, so she couldn't share any details.
Officers are thought to be canvassing the neighbourhood and area hospitals, searching for information about the child and his parents, who are not known.
Regarding whoever put the baby in the chute, a local resident, Tisha Holmes, 26, told the New York Daily News: 'That's just sad and pitiful. They need to burn in hell, that's what they need to do.
'People are shocked here. They could've given it to anybody. Ain't nobody in their civil mind would do that'.
'I've been living here for 30 years, nothing ever happened like this before - never'.
Scene: Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where police say they found a child in the trash chute
They consist of 15 buildings, all 6 or 13-stories tall, with 1,636 apartments housing about 4,276 people.
The 18.44-acre complex was built in 1944, and is named after the great American poet Walt Whitman.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389759/Newborn-baby-SURVIVES-tossed-Brooklyn-trash-compactor-Walt-Whitman-House-projects.html#ixzz1NAWvXpHD
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