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Baby Found Abandoned In Storm Drain
Posted: 5:34 am EDT September 17, 2009Updated: 5:34 pm EDT September 17, 2009
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County police said they found a baby abandoned in a storm drain early Thursday morning. The baby's teenage parents both face child cruelty charges.
Police found the baby boy around 4:30 a.m.
The discovery followed a tip from an 18-year-old woman at a hospital. She told police she gave birth to the baby in a gas station restroom and then she put the baby in a dumpster near Wesley Chapel Road. Police searched the dumpster but did not find the baby.
The woman also gave police her boyfriend's address. Police questioned the 19-year-old man, identified as Landis Moore, and he allegedly confessed that his girlfriend had given birth to their son in the house and then he had put the baby in the storm drain.
Officials found the baby a short time later in a storm drain and took it to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. Officials said the baby boy had been in the drain for "several hours" but he was expected to survive.
"They located the baby inside that storm drain, I don't know how the condition was but I know that she did give birth early this morning and it was placed in that storm drain and had been there for a few hours. But it was alive and it was transported and I believe it's in stable condition," said Officer Jason Gagnon with the DeKalb County Police Department.
Police said Moore is in custody and he is facing child cruelty charges. The baby's mother is also facing child cruelty charges, but she is currently in the hospital receiving treatment. Her name has not yet been released.
Baby Found Abandoned In Storm Drain
Posted: 5:34 am EDT September 17, 2009Updated: 5:34 pm EDT September 17, 2009
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County police said they found a baby abandoned in a storm drain early Thursday morning. The baby's teenage parents both face child cruelty charges.
Police found the baby boy around 4:30 a.m.
The discovery followed a tip from an 18-year-old woman at a hospital. She told police she gave birth to the baby in a gas station restroom and then she put the baby in a dumpster near Wesley Chapel Road. Police searched the dumpster but did not find the baby.
The woman also gave police her boyfriend's address. Police questioned the 19-year-old man, identified as Landis Moore, and he allegedly confessed that his girlfriend had given birth to their son in the house and then he had put the baby in the storm drain.
Officials found the baby a short time later in a storm drain and took it to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. Officials said the baby boy had been in the drain for "several hours" but he was expected to survive.
"They located the baby inside that storm drain, I don't know how the condition was but I know that she did give birth early this morning and it was placed in that storm drain and had been there for a few hours. But it was alive and it was transported and I believe it's in stable condition," said Officer Jason Gagnon with the DeKalb County Police Department.
Police said Moore is in custody and he is facing child cruelty charges. The baby's mother is also facing child cruelty charges, but she is currently in the hospital receiving treatment. Her name has not yet been released.
