Staff discover deceased toddler exterior Milwaukee funeral residence

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — A tragic discovery Friday morning, Sept. 3.  Milwaukee police are investigating a useless toddler present in a bag exterior Reid’s New Golden Gate Funeral Residence.

Staff seen a black tote bag in a nook up towards the constructing’s wall. The toddler was wrapped in a blanket inside. 

“it is horrifying,” Trina Corridor mentioned. She lives toes away from the scene. 

Milwaukee police say the toddler was simply born and left there. The reason for dying remains to be undetermined.

Corridor says she needs the particular person would have taken the infant to a hospital as a substitute.

“There’s a hospital on Inexperienced Bay there and there is a hospital there.”

Govt director of The Parenting Community, Joyce Felker, says there are alternatives out there if individuals run right into a state of affairs like this. 

“If somebody is within the second and they’re contemplating what to do with an toddler, Wisconsin legislation permits someone to relinquish an toddler in 72 hours to a police station, take them to a hospital.” 

“We have to be prayerful, we have to keep prayerful, so issues like this wont proceed to occur,” Corridor mentioned.

Authorities are persevering with to search for the toddler’s mother and father. When you have any info, please name police or Milwaukee Crime Stoppers at 414-224-TIPS.