Posted on 05/23/2011 1:40:48 PM PDT by Morgana
A newborn tossed down a housing project's trash chute survived the eight-story fall because he landed on a pile of garbage and the compactor was jammed, investigators said Monday.
A maintenance worker heard a baby boy's cries coming from the trash compactor in the Walt Whitman Houses on Sunday morning. The child was taken to Brooklyn Hospital where he remains in stable condition, said Jerry Schmetterer, spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office. He said the baby did not appear to have been injured in the fall.
Laquasia Wright, 18, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Police said it appeared Wright had given birth shortly before tossing the baby. She was also being treated at Brooklyn Hospital on Monday and it was unclear when her arraignment would take place.
A man who answered the phone at Wright's home declined to comment, and no lawyer information was immediately available.
A large amount of trash had collected in the compactor room over the weekend, which likely cushioned the baby's landing, police said.
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Poor child will have a chance now, because it never had a chance with a mother bearing a stupid homemade name.
A poor young white girl I'm guessin'.
It helps to have a friendly 'droid plugged into the control system.
Seriously, though ... if she had chosen to dispose of her unwanted product of conception just a few days prior ... it would have been an exercise of her sacred constitutional rights.
Life is cheap in these United States ... especially the life of a child.
I pray that she doesn’t have the chance to have this child. This baby should be allowed to be adopted by a loving couple. I don’t care about race, age, etc... a loving couple who wants to love this child and raise it right.
The ACLU will probably send a lawyer after Laquasia Wright for attempting to deprive Planned Parenthood of its income.
I pray that she doesn’t have the chance to have this child.
Or have any other children for that matter!!!
Thank you, Jesus for sparing this baby boy.
With all the flooding and tornados we are experiencing this year, maybe judgement has already started.
The protective hand of God is being slowly withdrawn from this nation.
Obama thinks he's in charge? Boehner? Lebron James?
Man, we are sooo screwed, and these hicks think we might need a minor adjustment or two - we're about to get a major "adjsustment".
On a cold and gray Brooklyn morn
A poor little baby child is thrown down a garbage chute
In the ghetto...
Sad. I hope the baby gets a chance at a real life, far from the creature that birthed him.
A chill goes up my spine when I think of what would have happened if it hadn't jammed. Make that evil bitch pay for what she did and wanted to happen.
Is that even illegal anymore ?
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