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Police find mother of baby who was found dead in dumpster
The Albuquerque Police Department concludes its on-scene investigation into the death of a baby in Northwest Albuquerque last month. The baby was found wrapped in a blanket inside a dumpster, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said.
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“At this point,” the Albuquerque Police Department is not charging a woman who left her dead baby inside a dumpster in Northwest Albuquerque, APD spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said in a news release Sunday night.
At about 3:45 a.m. April 22, officers responded to a 911 call in the 900 block of Rio Grande NW, near Interstate 40.
When they arrived, a security guard told them unhoused people found the baby’s body in the dumpster partially wrapped in a blanket, Gallegos said in an April 22 press release.
APD looked for the woman for days until a tip came into the Crimes Against Children Unit, he said. Officers then found the woman, 31, who told them the baby was stillborn, Gallegos said. It is unclear where she was found.
The Officer of the Medical Investigator is waiting for the lab results before determining a cause of death, Gallegos said, adding that OMI could not rule out that the baby was stillborn.
“After consulting with the District Attorney’s Office,” he said, “detectives are not able to charge the mother with a crime at this point.”
