PLAIN CITY, Ohio ( WCMH ) – Nearly two years after an infant girl was found dead in the back of a Madison County garbage truck, one person has been formally charged.
According to the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office, a grand jury returned a single count indictment against the mother of the baby for gross abuse of a corpse, a fifth-degree felony. The suspect was charged on March 13, 22 months after the infant was found.
The Plain City Division of Police initially responded to the 100 block of Bluestem Lane after receiving a call from a refuse company on reports of a human body found in the rear hopper, or collection point, of a refuse truck. The Pleasant Valley Joint Fire District pronounced the baby, with the umbilical cord still attached, dead at 2:33 p.m. on June 15, 2023.
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Authorities tied the suspect to the baby’s death after she was identified, interviewed and subject to a DNA test, which confirmed her as the baby’s mother. She is accused of putting the infant’s body in an exterior trash can, which was later collected by the refuse company. She is not believed to live or work within Plain City or in Madison County…