NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — An 8-month-old girl found abandoned in a New Haven dumpster last week has been released from the hospital.
New Haven police said the baby, who is recovering from burns to her hands, was released Tuesday to members of her family.
The girl was found in a dumpster outside a New Haven apartment complex on Oct. 12. Police later discovered that her 21-year-old mother had been stabbed.
Police arrested 24-year-old Andiana Velez, of Hamden, who they said was the girl’s babysitter.
Velez is charged with risk of injury to a child, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. The assault charge, authorities said, stemmed from the stabbing. She is being held in lieu of $500,000 bond.
According to court documents, Velez, the child’s mother and the baby were in a car at a gas station when an argument broke out and the 21-year-old was stabbed and ran from the scene.
Velez later told police she stopped at the apartment complex where she put the baby in the trash saying she “knew the baby would be found,” according to court documents.
Police Capt. Anthony Duff said authorities are still investigating how the baby was burned.
A tenant of the Presidential Gardens apartments found the baby while taking out his trash and called on maintenance workers at the complex to help rescue her.
Police have not released the name of the baby or her mother.
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