Police are looking for a newborn baby who may have been thrown in the trash after a woman showed up at a Queens hospital on Wednesday suffering from stomach pain, according to the NYPD.
The 23-year-old woman went to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center complaining of severe stomach pain, police said. Doctors discovered she had suffered a trauma consistent with recent child birth.
The woman told police, who were called to the hospital at about 2 a.m. Wednesday, that she had given birth to an unresponsive baby at her Queens home on Sunday.
She said she threw the baby’s body into the trash on Monday, police said. The garbage, according to police, would have gone to Metropolitan Recycling in East New York. A woman who answered the phone at the location confirmed police were at the facility.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the woman had not been charged with a crime, and cops continued to search for the body.
