NEW YORK—A Long Island woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a newborn baby found inside a Queens hotel room last summer.
Police said Wednesday, March 20, that 36-year-old Lauren Becker, of Seaford, has been charged with manslaughter.
Information on her lawyer wasn’t immediately available.
The female infant was found lying unconscious and unresponsive inside a room at a Days Inn in July. Becker was also in the hotel room.
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Both were taken to a hospital where the child was pronounced dead.
Newborn Baby Abandoned in a Box
A newborn baby with its umbilical cord still attached was left in a box outside a medical clinic in Western Australia with a note, according to reports.
The baby was found on the morning of March 20 outside the Garden City Medical Centre in Perth, according to police.
The Australian prime minister has appealed for the woman, who authorities say did not give birth at a hospital, to come forward for treatment.
“The baby was found in a box covered with a blanket,” local Detective Sergeant Dixie Johnson said, reported 9News. “The baby appeared to be cared for.”
“The baby was found in a box covered with a blanket. The baby appeared to be cared for,” police said.
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“There was a note left. I won’t comment on what exactly the note said at this time but the mother was expressing that she wanted the baby cared for.”
“We believe the baby was only there for about 10 minutes’ maximum.”
The baby didn’t appear to have been born in a hospital, Sergeant Johnson said. “That’s why we do want to speak to the mother because we’ve got concerns about the environment the baby was born in, and we really just need her to come forward to make sure she gets her medical attention and her welfare concerns are looked after.”
An eyewitness told the West Australian that she was at the Booragoon medical clinic when another woman ran inside yelling: “There’s a baby in a box.”
She said the abandoned infant was wrapped in a towel in a shopping bag in a box and was still covered in afterbirth and with the umbilical cord attached.
“He was lying very contentedly with his hand next to his face, he must have been fed,” she said.
WA Police said in a statement, “Around 8 a.m. this morning (March 20, 2019), the baby was located outside a medical centre in Booragoon. The baby was taken to the Perth Children’s Hospital and appears to be in good health.”
“Concerns are held for the mother of the child as she may require medical attention and police are asking her to contact them.”
Don Panjaroen was just two doors down from the medical centre at his dry cleaning business, but did not see anyone leave the baby.
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The first he knew of the incident was when police came into his store to ask for his CCTV footage, he told Australian news outlet News.com.
“It makes me feel a bit sad for the baby,” he said.
A father himself, Panjaroen said he had provided footage from his cameras but wasn’t sure what it showed.
“If anyone has any CCTV cameras of other areas they should give it to police, anything would help,” he said.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the baby is named Raoul.
The Epoch Times reporter Simon Veazey contributed to this report.
