Police arrested and charged a California woman after discovering her newborn baby abandoned on the street.
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Details On California Woman Who Allegedly Abandoned Her Newborn
Lodi police responded on Sept. 26 after receiving a report on an infant in the area, according to a post on Facebook .
ABC10 reports that grocery store employees found the infant in the location’s parking lot.
Per the outlet, store employee David Franco noticed the baby on the concrete. His co-worker, Silva Gonzalez, immediately called 911 after seeing the infant.
“I wanted to cry when I saw the [baby]. I just tried to see if it was moving or not, but I don’t see anything ,” Gonzalez explained .
The employees shared with reporters that the sight of the child left them deeply traumatized.
According to PEOPLE , the initial investigation revealed that a California woman named Kathryn Grace Copeland had abandoned the newborn. Police arrested Kathryn Copeland and charged her with abandoning a deceased newborn.