Baby found dead in bathroom of Latin restaurant in New York: mother gave birth there

A newborn baby found dead in the bathroom of a Manhattan Latin restaurant possibly took “one or two breaths, but not enough to stay alive,” New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said yesterday. at a press conference.

The newborn was found in a clogged toilet around 10 a.m. on Monday, September 30, by workers at Sophie’s Cuban Cuisine, on Fulton St. near Gold St. in Manhattan’s Financial District, just 30 minutes before The restaurant opened that day.

A week later, yesterday Kenny shared the medical examiner’s findings. Police later determined that the baby’s mother was a 20-year-old customer who used the bathroom the day before the newborn’s body was discovered and is believed to have had a miscarriage. The baby had been in the womb for 22 to 23 weeks, about six months, and weighed a little more than 1 pound, according to the City Coroner’s Office (OCME).

It is not yet clear whether the young woman will face charges, but she could possibly be charged with concealment of a human corpse, Kenny was quoted as saying. DailyNews. His name was not revealed.

Officials remind citizens that New York and New Jersey have a safe haven law, which allows parents to surrender an infant up to 30 days old anonymously and without question, at hospitals, police stations or firefighters and other designated spaces. You can also leave the baby with someone and immediately notify authorities of the baby’s location.

In a similar case, in July a newborn with the umbilical cord still attached was abandoned on a Chelsea street under the High Line in Manhattan (NYC). He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he survived.

In April, a case that had been open for almost 39 years was closed in New Jersey: the newborn girl found dead in a bag in a park on Christmas Eve 1984.

In February, a young 21-year-old Latina mother was arrested after her hours-old baby was found alone in the hallway of a residential building in Yonkers (NY). A good Samaritan wrapped her in a blanket and called 911, saving her life. Days before, Lasasha Gouldbourne (31) was accused of involuntary manslaughter months after her newborn twin was found stuffed in a laundry bag in The Bronx (NYC).

In the fall of 2020, two newborn twins were left dead in a high-traffic residential area in The Bronx (NYC) and almost four years later, no one has been arrested in the case.