Police are investigating after the body of a newborn baby was found at a recycling plant in Connecticut, according to a release.
Police say a City Carting employee called police Tuesday morning after discovering a baby at a waste and recycling plant in Stamford while processing materials.
The Stamford Police and Fire Departments responded to the area and confirmed that the child, appearing to be a full-term newborn boy, was dead.
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Stamford crime scene investigators are looking into the incident to find the origin of the recyclables that were processed in the morning.
Investigators say the trash was dropped off from companies in Andover, Massachusetts; Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut; and Somers and the Oyster Bay area in New York.
Andover Police told Boston 25 News they are ready to assist investigators in Stamford in whatever way they can.
Investigators say they are first trying to establish a timeline of when the body arrived and where it came from.
"The obvious things are surveillance cameras to look at the number of trucks, the origin of those trucks, certainly City Carting has been cooperative and they'll have the logging material from those trucks and that's what the investigators are looking at right now," said Stamford Police Lt. Thomas Scanlon.
Like Massachusetts, Connecticut has a baby safe haven law where a parent can anonymously drop off an infant at a police station or fire department without fear of prosecution. In Connecticut, infants up to 30 days old can be surrendered; Massachusetts allows for infants up to 7 days old.
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