CNN) -- A 44-year-old Maryland woman faces charges of child abuse after police say she gave birth in a portable toilet and dropped the newborn into the waste tank.
A Maryland woman is charged with child abuse after police say she dropped her newborn into a portable toilet.
After exiting the portable toilet in Long Wharf Park in Cambridge, Candy Vigneri got a cigarette from a construction worker and sat at a picnic table, police Lt. Wayne Bromwell said.
As she sat, a male passer-by approached the toilet but Vigneri warned him, "Don't go in there, I just had a baby there," police said.
The man immediately called 911. Vigneri returned to the toilet and retrieved the newborn from the foul liquid at the base of the tank.
The baby was unresponsive and covered with a blue antibacterial chemical agent when emergency responders reached the scene, police said.
Don't Miss WMAR: Woman Gives Birth in Port-O-Potty Vigneri told officers that she didn't know she was pregnant.
She was arrested Wednesday on charges of child abuse and reckless endangerment and is being held on a $50,000 bond.
The baby is in stable condition at Easton Memorial Hospital. Dorchester County social services will take control of the newborn after she is released from the hospital.
I agree, if the fact are true, she deserves the max punishment possible.
God bless the baby, evidently God had a reason for her birth and surviving.
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... didn't know she was pregnant, left the newborn in the tank, and then told someone she did it. This is plain and simple criminal stupidity. She needs to be hanged, and then shot.
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This woman has to be mentally ill. I cannot believe anyone could be that cruel to a child. If she is found mentally competent, she should be tortured to death slowly.
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At childbirth, the main character Jean Baptiste Grenouille is dropped into fish guts by his fishmonger mother. She is subsequently condemned to death. He becomes a master perfume maker and mass murderer.
I wonder if maryland has a drop off law. Here in CT the mother can drop the baby off at any hospital with no questions asked. (I think fire stations and police stations too but they may not be perceived as anonymous)
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