Infant Thrown In Trash Then In A Drain Dies
My homie Ryan Cameron, one of Atlanta top radio personalities on V-103, went to the airwaves to voice how he felt about the parents who threw their infant child in a storm drain.. The topic had the entire city of Atlanta up in arms… WOW…. Who does that type of thing, what were they thinking…. Get this, the guy who did it, friends called into the station to tell the world that the man who threw his new born baby first in a trash can then into a storm drain was a good man, saying “these news stations need to stop throwing his name in the mud“… Well now the parents have a bigger problem cause the infant has now died…
The AJC.com is reporting :
Sinead A. Harrison, 18, and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Landis Bernard Stewart-Moore, could face additional charges since the infant died. They remain in jail on $50,000 cash-only bond on felony child cruelty charges.
“We didn’t know what to do with the kid,” Stewart-Moore told reporters as he left the courthouse in handcuffs. Harrison didn’t speak.
Harrison apparently gave birth at her boyfriend’s home on Grand Pines Drive in south DeKalb near Wesley Chapel Road late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. After the birth, she went to a local hospital. Stewart-Moore hid the baby, police said.
Harrison told staff at DeKalb Medical Center’s Hillandale facility in Lithonia that she had just delivered a baby and the infant was in a trash bin at a gas station on Wesley Chapel Road. A police search at the gas station turned up nothing.
Gagnon said detectives don’t know why the mother told them that her baby was in a trash can since she did not leave him there.
Harrison gave police Stewart-Moore’s address. When police interviewed Stewart-Moore, he said his girlfriend had delivered at his house and he admitted he had put the baby in a storm drain, Gagnon said. Stewart-Moore was arrested and jailed. After Harrison was released from the hospital, she was also jailed.
The baby boy was only a few hours old when DeKalb police officers, frantically looking for him, found him inside a storm drain just a few yards from his father’s home. The infant was found around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and was reported in good health initially. The baby was alive and making noise, detectives told Judge Mary Whitehall in Magistrate Court Thursday night.
The baby was transported to the hospital, where he later died. A cause of death was not immediately available late Thursday night.
According to Deanna Smith with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, the couple could have avoided criminal charges by leaving the child with an on-duty hospital worker. The state’s Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002 allows a mother to leave her newborn baby within seven days of birth at any hospital in Georgia. The newborn must be left with a hospital employee and the mother must leave her name and address.
Scott Nelson, who lives next door to Stewart-Moore, said the storm drain was just three houses away from where Stewart-Moore lives with his mother. Nelson said he knew little about the family next door except Stewart-Moore and his friends would hang out in the yard, and play music loudly while the mother was at work.
“That’s when you hear the commotion over there,” Nelson said.
No one answered phone calls to the home Thursday evening.
Another neighbor, Carol Orr, said she saw Stewart-Moore walking alone outside in the rain Wednesday evening. Now, she says she’s shocked and saddened to learn what happened to the newborn.
“It just hit me so hard,” Orr said. “They knew what they were doing.”
Orr said Harrison didn’t appear to be hiding her pregnancy.
According to DeKalb jail records, Stewart-Moore has been in custody there before. He was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault and kidnapping in connection with the April 2008 robbery of a Candler Road hamburger stand. Last month, he was arrested on marijuana possession and child cruelty charges, according to jail records.
— Alexis Stevens contributed to this article.
Mya
September 18, 2009 at 9:17 am
What they did was wrong. I simply can’t understand why they did not drop the baby off at the hospital or their local fire station. They could have given that poor baby a chance at life. There is no excuse for what they did to that child. Boys and Girls if you want to act grown and have sex use protection. Use a condom. Little girls keep your legs closed .
Te'a
September 18, 2009 at 10:35 am
I agree NO EXCUSE!!!
m3m3
September 18, 2009 at 11:14 am
i can not believe this…i have no sympathy for these two. How could you do that and think you can get away with it? What happened to dropping the baby off at the fire stations? I wonder what kind of parents they have and how were they raised. it goes so far beyond them! Where is her parents and if you pregnant that mean you were having sex so you know the outcome!!! OMG….Its so sad! I guess they thought they could be like the rest of the people on the NEWS who have killed there kids, huh? Well, they should have done some research because they never get away with it. Im sad that this has happened but they’re going to jail for murder….1st degree plus the other charges of child neglagence!!
Sandra
September 18, 2009 at 11:24 am
Only God can judge………remember that when we start judging……….I pray for all that was involved in this terrible incident………I find that we are quick to judge and slow to help…..yes I agree, what these parents did was wrong…but who am I to say what they deserves…..
Opie
September 18, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Stop reporting disgusting crap like this. I come to this blog for entertainment.
Beyond-Beautifu;
September 18, 2009 at 5:38 pm
i hope thse 2 bitches catch hell in jail. i hope they fuck the daddy ioin the ass with a blunt object. And the baby momma needs to be ganged raped by a bunch of hard females.
FlawdaCandi
September 19, 2009 at 6:34 am
Sad, so very sad….
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September 21, 2009 at 4:18 pm
OMG,
I’m in the ATL, and when i heard this stor y and how close they are living to me, i could not believe it!
What kind of phsychotic person does this!!!
There are so many peopl out there looking to adopt a baby!
Hell i would have taken the baby.. !!!
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niggarsarediseases
September 21, 2009 at 7:23 pm
niggars are not worth anything………….. they don’t do anything, don’t work, don’t go to school, collect welfare, have multiple kids are violent are dangerous and then they always want to blame the white man for their problems!! There are good decent black folks and then there are niggars!