Sentenced: Wilmington Police Are Investigating After Baby Discovered In Trash Can

[Sugar Cookie]

The Wilmington Police Department is investigating after a newborn infant was found alive inside a trash can Thursday afternoon.

According to police, a woman was walking her dog around 5 p.m. when she heard the sound of a baby crying coming from inside a nearby trash can in the parking lot of Christ Community Church.

The baby was inside a black trash bag that was tied.

The woman rescued the baby and ran toward the nearby apartments for help where someone called 911.

EMS took the infant, a little boy, to New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

WPD tweeted a report from Doctors this evening saying that the baby is healthy and doing well.

Wilmington police are investigating after baby discovered in trash can

The Wilmington Police Department is investigating after a newborn infant was found alive inside a trash can Thursday afternoon.

www.wect.com

 

[TexasDawg]

Wow! A trash can at the Church but mutha-fukas to stupid to take the child inside the church and no charges would ever be filed!

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Why a chruch trashcan.

The bag was sealed shut so its pretty obvious the intention was death. So why the church trashcan?

 

[Blizzard]

Hey, aren't those Finders Keepers?

okay, no.

It can apply to puppies, sometimes.

 

[Sejanus]

Holy crap!
They're REAL?!?!?!!

 

[Blizzard]

Why a chruch trashcan.

The bag was sealed shut so its pretty obvious the intention was death. So why the church trashcan?

That's explained by more info found:

Cynthia Burton and her dog, Flounder, normally take a different route home, but took a shortcut behind Christ Community Church Thursday night to keep the dog off of the sizzling hot pavement.

As they were making their way back home, Burton heard a noise coming from a blue trash bin

With the leash in one hand and the baby in the other, Burton yelled for help, but no one was at the church.

It's possible to see the place in google maps satellite view (address: Christ Community Church, Fairview Drive, Wilmington, NC, USA).

This trash can was described as being accessible while behind this building, in the parking lot. Seeing the building in the satellite view, and knowing that nobody was in the church at that time, we can see that this trash can would have been out of sight and would have been expected to be out of earshot from anyone who was conducting normal business.

• This trash can being basically concealed, the person was able to put the bag in with the expectation of not being seen by anyone.

• Being out of sight and out of earshot meant that it was plotted as an isolated place for a healthy, crying baby to die unnoticed, but the death needed to happen somewhat quickly. The tied-off plastic bag would have been meant to both suffocate the baby and attempt to conceal the smell once it had been dead a while (although, dead body smells do come out of plastic bags a bit, even when tied off).

• Then, the plan was that the trash would be emptied by some unknowing 3rd party and the body would be gone, with the killer not being involved with its removal.

Simply: this trash can's location made it great for these intentions.

If the abandoning person had decided to dispatch the baby before putting it in the trash can, it might have worked. I doubt the abandoning person had compassion and for that reason did not want to do it that way, though. Either the person didn't think to, or thought that keeping the baby quiet and more or less comfortable until it was discarded was the better plan.

But then, oops. A pesky dogwalker trespassed on the property (and in normal circumstances the church management would probably not have appreciated this, and maybe bitched at her, too). The random, pesky dog walker (whom property owners usually hate) heard the baby! And therefore, a monkey wrench was thrown into the last part of that twisted little plan, and the baby was saved.

https://www.wect.com/2020/07/17/he-...credited-saving-life-newborn-found-trash-bin/

The sound of a crying baby is extremely attention getting to human ears, btw. This is innate. It's possible to be walking outside, and hear a sound and it's some animal or something in the distance, and part of your brain just stops in its tracks, and you are forced to listen - - - is that a baby????? Then when you verify in your head that it is not the sound of a baby, you keep walking. Know what I mean? It's a sound that your brain seems to always be listening for, even if you're not listening for it =p .

Ever wondered why it is so difficult to ignore the sound of a crying baby when you are trapped aboard a train or aeroplane? Scientists have found that our brains are hard-wired to respond strongly to the sound, making us more attentive and priming our bodies to help whenever we hear it – even if we're not the baby's parents.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/17/crying-babies-hard-ignore

I hope they figure out what the hell went on. That may have not been placed there by the mother. It could be any number of weird situations, like someone got a 12 year old pregnant and is hiding it.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Hey, aren't those Finders Keepers?

okay, no.

It can apply to puppies, sometimes.

I have always said if i found a baby, i would keep it.
But with DNA and those pesky public school employees asking all kinds of questions i think it would be impossible.

 

[lastingmemoriesreborns]

I have always said the same thing lol. guess you could homeschool lol

 

[Blizzard]

UPDATE

IT WAS THE MOTHER

THEY GOT HER

Woman accused of leaving newborn child in trash can makes first court appearance

The Wilmington Police Department has identified the woman who allegedly abandoned her newborn baby inside a trash can.

www.wect.com

Also:

This case is still under investigation. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Detective H.M. Wooddell directly at (910)-341-0166. Inquiries about adoption should be directed to the Department of Social Services.

Okay so everyone who wants the baby, there it is! Free baby!!!!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 21-year-old North Carolina woman has been charged with attempted murder after she left her newborn baby boy in a trash bin behind a church, where a dog walker heard the baby’s cries and saved his life.

Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo is being held at the New Hanover County Jail on an $800,000 bond after an assessment at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the Wilmington Police Department said.

Cynthia Burton was walking her dog Flounder on Thursday when she heard the baby crying. She found him in a black trash bag in the bin behind Christ Community Church, covered in blood with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, as CrimeOnline previously reported.

Police said the little boy is healthy and doing well at the hospital and that the Department of Social Services is looking for an appropriate foster home for him.

Burton told WECT that she found the newborn only because she chose a shadier route for her walk with Flounder Thursday afternoon in an effort to keep the dog’s feet off the sizzling pavement.

“But he cried, and he kept on crying. He cried until I went and got the bag and pulled him up,” she said. “And when I opened the bag, he stopped crying. That’s when I think he knew he was safe.”

Mother who left newborn in trash bin charged; baby boy was found by dog walker

A 21-year-old North Carolina woman has been charged with attempted murder after she left her newborn baby boy in a trash bin behind a church, where a dog walker heard the baby’s cries and saved his life. Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo is being held at the New Hanover County Jail on an $800,000...

www.crimeonline.com

 

[Keepalowprofile]

21 years old.

Cold black hearted dead eyed bitch.
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But he cried, and he kept on crying. He cried until I went and got the bag and pulled him up,” she said. “And when I opened the bag, he stopped crying. That’s when I think he knew he was safe.”

 

[Sugar Cookie]

They need to question her how many times she has done this before.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

According to the warrants, both at her residence and later at the Wilmington Police Department, Calix-Macedo told police she had given birth to the boy in the toilet of her trailer on the morning of July 16.

The baby was then left in the toilet, the warrants say, for about seven hours that day, during which time Calix-Macedo could hear the baby crying.

While the baby was in the toilet, police say, Calix-Macedo fed her 18-month-old daughter and took a shower.

Later, she told police, is when she put the baby in a black trash bag, tied it shut, put it in the trunk of her green Toyota Camry and drove with her daughter to the WalMart in Monkey Junction to buy milk. After leaving WalMart, police say Calix-Macedo went to the church and left the baby, still tied in the bag, inside the recycling bin. (In the warrants it is described as both a “recycle bin” and a “trash can.”) She then went back home.

According to the warrants, Calix-Macedo told police that the baby was in the trash bag in the trunk of the car while she and her daughter were in WalMart. The high temperature in Wilmington on July 16 was 89 degrees. She said she knew the baby was still alive because she could hear him crying.

Later, police say they talked to Calix-Macedo’s boyfriend, identified in the warrants as Jairo Neftali Gonzalez-Jeronimo. Calix-Macedo told police that he is the father of their newborn and their daughter, but that he never knew she was pregnant with the newborn.

Disturbing new details emerge in case of baby left in Wilmington trash can

Editor’s note: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. Police say a 22-year-old...

www.starnewsonline.com

She told the daddy she was getting fat because of soda and her birth control shot.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A North Carolina mother who dumped her newborn baby into a trash can has won a chance to regain custody of her children after a judge ruled her case should be reconsidered.

Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo, 23, is currently in the New Hanover County Prison facing charges of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of felony intentional child abuse causing serious bodily harm.

She allegedly wrapped her hours-old son in a bag in July 2020 and left the newborn in the garbage bin of a church — where he was found by neighbors who heard his cries.

An appeals court unanimously ruled last month that the mother will get an opportunity to be the legal guardian of the baby and his older sister after three judges on the appeals panel unanimously agreed to overturn the case.

The ruling vacates a previous decision in December 2020, that ruled that the children were “dependents” of the state since their parents were either unfit or unqualified to be parents.

According to the Sept. 21 ruling, Calix-Macedo gave birth to a son, Alexander, in her home bathroom on July 16, 2020. She left the newborn in the toilet for several hours while attending to her 1-year-old daughter, Elenore.

When the father, her boyfriend at the time, returned home from work around 4 p.m., she put the crying baby in a plastic trash bag and placed him in the trunk before driving to the local Walmart where she went grocery shopping.

She then drove to a nearby church and placed the bag with the baby inside of a trash bin, where he was later found still crying by a neighbor and taken to the hospital, according to the ruling.

She was identified by surveillance footage from the church and was subsequently interviewed by police the next day.

After initially denying that the baby was hers, she confessed to police that she was in fact the baby’s mother and that she knew he was still alive when she put him inside of the garbage bin.

She told police the father, whom she identified, had not known that she was pregnant. The father later confirmed to authorities he had not known.

She was placed under arrest in July 2020 and the social services took custody of Elenore.

The child’s father was not identified as he has not been charged.

The three appeal judges cited errors by New Hanover County District Court Judge J.H. Corpening II in his 2020 ruling, saying he failed to consider the family’s circumstances, including that the children’s father may be willing to take custody and that the baby had no identifiable parents when that state took custody.

The appeals decision does not guarantee that Calix-Macedo will regain custody.

Mom who dumped newborn in trash gets chance to regain custody of kids

A mother who dumped her baby into a trash can has won a chance to regain custody of her children after a judge ruled her case should be reconsidered.

nypost.com

What The Fuck

 

[Sevens My Charm]

If dad is willing and able.. but this bitch doesn't deserve children or the right to reproduce replacements..

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Nope @Sevens My Charm he did not come forward for the children at the time.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Our judicial system is broken.

Any consideration given to this roach is offensive to all good parents.

Promising her housing, cash and food assistance will never change what she did.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A woman will spend at least 16 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to the attempted first-degree murder of her newborn son.

Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo, 23, was arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder in July 2020 — two days after she gave birth to a son, tied him inside a black trash bag and placed him in a trash can.


The child survived and is healthy, now nearing his second birthday. Calix-Macedo was 21 at the time she gave birth.

Calix-Macedo pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder, one count of intentional child abuse and one count of negligent child abuse on Monday morning in New Hanover County court.

In a prepared statement translated by a court translator, Calix-Macedo said the guilt and pain she feels will "never go away."

I was not OK mentally," Calix-Macedo said. "I love my children very much."

Superior Court Judge Jason Disbrow sentenced Calix-Macedo to 196 to 248 months in prison — 16 to 20 years. When her sentence is up, Calix-Macedo's son will be an adult.

According to court documents and search warrants, Calix-Macedo told police she gave birth to the son on July 16, 2020, in her home bathroom. She left the boy in the toilet while tending to her daughter, according to police.

About 4 p.m. that afternoon, Calix-Macedo put the newborn a plastic bag, placed him in the trunk of her car and went shopping at Walmart, according to police. Search warrant paperwork said security camera footage showed her driving away from Walmart at 4:31 p.m.

She then went to the parking lot at Christ Community Church on Fairview Drive off Carolina Beach Road and left the newborn in the trash bin, she told police.

A passer-by, Cynthia Burton, heard the child's cries and found him about 5:05 p.m

Amy James, a psychologist based in New Bern, was called by the defense to testify Monday as an expert witness. She said she diagnosed Calix-Macedo with post-traumatic stress disorder stemming, in part, from childhood trauma and abandonment.

James said Calix-Macedo's PTSD caused her to not be in touch with her emotions and to live in "survival mode" for much of her life.

"She has been through things that the majority of us in this room cannot even fathom," James said.

Assistant District Attorney Lance Oehrlein said he spoke to the child's father Monday and learned he is doing well.

"As far as we know, he did not suffer any long-term effects from what happened to him on his first day of life," Oehrlein said.

Mother pleads guilty to abandoning newborn son in Wilmington trash can

Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo, 23, will spend at least 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to placing her newborn son in a trash can in 2020.

www.starnewsonline.com

 

[Babs]

She deserves to be in prison for what she attempted to do, PTSD not withstanding. I have complex PTSD but I would never drop a baby in a toilet, leave him there for several hours, go shopping at Walmart, then dump bagged baby in trash can. That's twisted and evil.
So the father now has custody I gather. Since he works, I wonder who is actually taking care of the children on a day-to-day basis.