A baby was found dead in a duffel bag outside the Chicago Fire Station on Saturday, authorities reported.
According to the Chicago Police Department on Monday, firefighters went out to shovel the snow around 5: 00 am, and found a bag containing the newborn.
For now, authorities said Monday night that no suspects have been detained and that the investigation is ongoing, Fox News reported.
Dawn Geras, a member of the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation, assured that if the baby was placed in the bag alive, it froze to death, stating, “It’s Chicago. It’s cold at night. You can’t leave a baby out in the open.”
After the discovery, the fire department sent a tweet recalling Chicago’s Abandoned Newborn Baby Protection Act.
“Illinois’ Safe Haven law is a safe haven for parents making the difficult decision to place a newborn for adoption,” the department wrote Saturday. “Delivering a newborn to a firefighter or paramedic directly at a fire station can help facilitate the safest outcome, without question or bias.”
All states have safe haven laws, which allow parents to deliver their newborn children to safe places and usually assigned to police stations, fire departments and hospitals, but require parents to hand over their children to any staff member, not abandon them.
The incident occurred approximately a week after a New Mexico mother threw her newborn son into a dumpster, an incident that was caught on surveillance video where three bystanders found a lifeless baby six hours later and called 911.
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