According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, A young DeKalb County mother and her boyfriend are facing charges after the woman's newborn baby was found abandoned early Thursday in a storm drain. The 18-year-old woman went to a local hospital early Thursday and reported that she had just given birth at a Wesley Chapel Road gas station and had left the baby in a nearby garbage dumpster, police said.
A search of the dumpster turned up no baby, but when police interviewed the woman's 19-year-old boyfriend, he told them that he had put the baby in a storm drain, DeKalb police spokesman Jason Gagnon said.
The boyfriend led police to the storm drain along Grand Pines Drive, where the baby boy was found, Gagnon said.
Gagnon said the baby was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.
The boy, who had apparently been in the storm drain for several hours, was breathing on his own.
"It's looking like the child will be fine," Gagnon said. "Luckily, we located him before any more rain hit."
Police arrested the boyfriend, Landis Stewart-Moore, and charged him with first degree child cruelty. The mother, whose name has not been released, was being treated at a local hospital, and would face a similar charge upon her release, Gagnon said.
A search of the dumpster turned up no baby, but when police interviewed the woman's 19-year-old boyfriend, he told them that he had put the baby in a storm drain, DeKalb police spokesman Jason Gagnon said.
The boyfriend led police to the storm drain along Grand Pines Drive, where the baby boy was found, Gagnon said.
Gagnon said the baby was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.
The boy, who had apparently been in the storm drain for several hours, was breathing on his own.
"It's looking like the child will be fine," Gagnon said. "Luckily, we located him before any more rain hit."
Police arrested the boyfriend, Landis Stewart-Moore, and charged him with first degree child cruelty. The mother, whose name has not been released, was being treated at a local hospital, and would face a similar charge upon her release, Gagnon said.
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