"Baby" WALKER - Newborn - Garden City MI

A newborn girl was in a hospital Saturday after she was found in a plastic bag in a trash bin in Garden City, police said.The 7-pound, 4-ounce infant was discovered at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the trash in a parking lot in the Cherry Hill and Middlebelt area, Garden City Police Deputy Chief Robert Muery said Saturday.Four teenage girls walking past heard the infant's cries and alerted an adult.The child was taken to Garden City Hospital then later transferred to a children's hospital, Muery said.Detectives
located the child's mother using information from a receipt found in
the bag where the child had been placed, Muery said.The
mother, a 22-year-old woman, admitted she had given birth on Thursday
and had hidden the pregnancy from her family. She was taken to Garden
City Hospital for treatment.

Four teenage girls walked by a dumpster in Garden City on Friday and heard what sounded like a baby or cat crying.

Unsure what to do, one of the girls contacted her father, who arrived to investigate.

"When I went to move the one bag, I felt it and it moved," Ron Smith said.
"And I was like "Oh, my God, there is something in here.' And then
that's when we opened up the bag, and there it was. That's when I
freaked out."

Smith found a 7-pound, 4-ounce newborn --
umbilical cord still attached -- in a plastic grocery bag and started
yelling for someone in the neighboring collision shop to call 911.

"I just couldn't believe it. I was just... I don't know why someone
would do that. It was just horrifying," Kori Detoy, one of the four
girls credited with saving the baby's life, told the media.

Medics rushed the infant to the hospital and she appeared to be in relatively-good health.

Detectives
found a receipt in the bag with the child, and used it to track down
the infant's mother, who was also taken to the hospital for treatment.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office has yet to announce if any charges will be filed against the mother.

Garden City Police Deputy Chief Robert Muery reminded the Detroit Free Press that Michigan has a law allowing mothers to leave their newborns at a hospital, police or fire station, no questions asked.

Three days after making the discovery, the girls are shaken but glad to have helped.

"I feel so happy that we saved a baby's life," Hannah Dehetre said. "And that baby could be President, you know?"

A 22-year-old Garden City woman was arraigned this afternoon on an
attempted murder charge after investigators say she gave birth to a
baby girl and left her in a Dumpster last month. A
group of teen girls discovered the 7-pound, 4-ounce infant about five
hours after Desiree A. Walker left her in the garbage container in a
parking lot in the Cherry Hill and Middlebelt area in Garden City on
Nov. 20, according to investigators. The infant survived and is
currently in good condition.
Walker could be punished by life
in prison if convicted of the attempted murder charge, the Wayne County
Prosecutor’s Office said today. She’s also was charged in 21st District
Court in Garden City with child abandonment, a felony punishable by up
to 10 years in prison, and second-degree child abuse, punishable by up
to 4 years in prison.
Judge Richard Hammer set Walker’s bond at $100,000 cash.

DETROIT: Mother of baby found in trash bin arraigned

A Garden City woman accused of abandoning her newborn in a trash bin was
arraigned Monday in Wayne County Circuit Court on charges of attempted
murder, child abandonment and second-degree child abuse.
Judge Deborah Thomas reduced bond from $100,000 to $50,0000 for Desiree
Walker, 22, who authorities say put her 7-pound, 4-ounce infant girl in
a plastic bag in a Garden City parking lot garbage bin near Cherry Hill
and Middlebelt roads Nov. 20.She remained in the Wayne County Jail on Monday.
Teens passing by heard the baby crying and told an adult.Police
used a receipt in the bag to trace the baby to Walker, who told police
she was trying to hide the pregnancy from her family.