$2,500 Reward Offered For Tips In Case Of Newborn Found In Recycling Center Dumpster
ROSEVILLE (WWJ) - Crime Stoppers is now offering a $2,500 reward in the death of the newborn baby.
Roseville police say the infant boy was found last Wednesday night in a dumpster at the ReCommunity Recycling Center on Groesbeck Highway, between 12 and 13 Mile roads in Roseville.
The baby, a Caucasian male, is estimated to be between one and three days old. The umbilical cord was still attached, police said, so the child may have died just after birth.
"Sometime from Tuesday, over through the last couple of weeks, somebody has given birth to a child we believe somewhere in the middle or lower part of Michigan," Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told WWJ last week. "We have 34 possible locations where this dumpster could've come from."
Police initially suspected the baby might be that of a 25-year-old Lansing area woman, now behind bars in connection with the 2013 death of her baby girl — but that was ruled out based on DNA evidence. That woman's second child, a newborn boy, is still missing.
An investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information on this case should call the Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-SPEAK-UP. As always, tipsters to Crime Stoppers may remain anonymous.
Authorities are reminding the public that Michigan has a "safe haven" law — which allows parents to safely surrender their newborn child, no more than 72-hours-old, to an employee who is inside and on duty at any hospital, fire department or police station, or by calling 911. This program is a safe, legal and anonymous alternative to abandonment or infanticide, and releases the newborn for placement with an adoptive family.