A migrant woman from Mexico was arrested Saturday morning in New York City after abandoning her newborn baby boy in a hospital trash can.
Lucia Garcia, 21, immigrated to the United States from Mexico about 10 months ago, allegedly “seeking asylum”.
Police arrived at the hospital lobby after Garcia was spotted, covered in blood, by an NYPD officer who was working security.
“The officers and a member of the hospital’s cleaning crew then heard a baby’s cries, and found the infant, who was taken to a Manhattan hospital in stable condition,” the New York Post reports. “The woman’s father, Ambrosio Garcia, 41, said he had brought her to the hospital Friday night because she wasn’t feeling well but that she insisted she wasn’t pregnant and had been hiding her condition from him.”
Officers and a member of the hospital’s cleaning crew found the baby after they heard him crying. The baby was than taken to Manhattan Hospital in stable condition.
The woman’s father, Ambrosio Garcia, 41, said he had brought her to the hospital Friday night because she wasn’t feeling well but that she insisted she wasn’t pregnant and had been hiding her condition from him.
“She said she had her period when she came out of the bathroom,” Garcia told the Post through tears. “She had a lot of blood on her.”
“Then police went into the bathroom, and another man to clean it. There was a baby boy in there that they found in the trash can.”
The boy was transferred to NYU Langone in healthy condition.
“Somebody came and told me that the baby was living [last night] and he was well,” Garcia said.
“That she had put him in the trash. I would love to have a grandchild — it would be my first grandchild.”
Garcia has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment.
