Police in Iowa arrested a 22-year-old woman who gave birth in a bathroom at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Sunday and allegedly left the newborn in a trash bin.
Police in Iowa arrested a 22-year-old woman alleged to have given birth in a bathroom at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Sunday and left the newborn in a trash bin, reports WHO-TV.
According to the authorities, Ashley Hautzenrader said she had no idea she was pregnant before the baby was born.
As the child didn’t cry, she assumed she had delivered a stillborn infant, notes the Iowa City Press-Citizen.