Newborn found alive in trash
A paramedic found a full-term baby in a trash can Saturday while he was treating a woman who claimed to have suffered a miscarriage in a North Belle Vernon convenience store restroom, investigators said.
The woman and newborn were taken to Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills following the discovery at about 1:15 p.m. at a 7-Eleven at 3 Fayette Ave., just off of Interstate 70 in Westmoreland County, court records show.
Westmoreland County detectives entered the case and seized the incident’s patient care reports from Mon Valley Emergency Services in Monessen under a search warrant signed Tuesday by District Judge Joseph Dalfonso. No charges have been filed against the woman.
The detectives indicated in the search warrant application the discovery of the baby was being investigated as a child endangerment case.
The woman was being treated in the restroom by paramedic Terry Foster when he heard noises in the nearby trash can, the affidavit seeking the warrant indicates.
Foster reached into the can and removed a full-term baby girl with her umbilical cord still attached, the record states. The baby did not appear to have been injured.
A spokeswoman for District Attorney John Peck said his office had no comment on the case because it’s under investigation.