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(New York, NY) — A dead baby was found under a pile of leaves behind the New York City Housing Authority’s Bay View Houses in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, on Thursday (Nov. 20th), according to police. The male fetus was found in a black bag in a pile of leaves.
The discovery comes one day after a newborn was found abandoned in front of an East 223rd Street apartment building in the Bronx. That baby was found wrapped in a blanket in a bag, and was taken to the hospital in stable condition. Police arrested the baby’s mother, 28-year-old Claudette Tinnin, and charged her with reckless endangerment, abandonment of a child, and acting in a manner injurious to a child
Just last month, a baby girl was abandoned at Penn Station during the morning rush. The baby girl, described as a newborn, was found wrapped in a blanket at the bottom of a staircase leading to the 1/2/3 train platform. She was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
New York has a Safe Haven law allowing a parent to surrender a baby up to 30 days old at a hospital, firehouse or police station without fear of prosecution.
