JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Police searched garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital sometime in the past two weeks.
"It's like they treated my son like he's nothing," said Kalynn Moore, the 26-year-old mother. "It hurts so bad."
Moore gave birth to Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. at Christ Hospital on Dec. 21, about a month before her due date. Her cousin Nicia Royster said she went with a nurse that day to place the corpse into the hospital's morgue.
Hospital officials went to Moore's Jersey City home on Jan. 2 and told her that a funeral home had come to pick up the remains, but they could not be found.
Police say the body was discarded in the trash, but they do not know when. The hospital has not officially said the baby was thrown in the trash but didn't dispute the police statement.
A spokeswoman for Christ Hospital said the institution is praying for the baby's family. But the family and the hospital disagree over whether Bashere was born alive.
Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Davey said in a statement that the baby was stillborn.
Moore, who has a 5-year-old son, said at a news conference Tuesday at her lawyer's office that she was in and out of consciousness in the minutes after the 5-pound boy was born. But she says the baby was born alive and that she held him briefly before doctors spent more than 20 minutes trying to stabilize the baby's heart rate before he died.
News of the case was first reported Tuesday in The Jersey Journal.
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