{"id":30,"date":"2009-01-08T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/search-abandoned-for-nj-babys-body-lost-in-trash.html"},"modified":"2009-01-08T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:27:00","slug":"search-abandoned-for-nj-babys-body-lost-in-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/search-abandoned-for-nj-babys-body-lost-in-trash.html","title":{"rendered":"Search abandoned for NJ baby&#8217;s body, lost in trash"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 1\/8\/2009<br \/><br \/>JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital&#8217;s trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;We have come to the harsh reality that efforts to locate the remains of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. would be a Herculean undertaking with little probability of a successful conclusion,&#8221; Jersey City police Chief Thomas Comey said in a statement posted on the department&#8217;s Web site.<br \/><br \/>Authorities had been looking for the baby&#8217;s body since Jan. 2, when it was discovered missing from the morgue at Christ Hospital. The remains apparently were thrown away with the hospital&#8217;s trash sometime between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2, police said.<br \/><br \/>They searched dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before focusing on a landfill in Ashland, Ky., where the waste may have been transferred. On Wednesday, Comey said he feared the waste was sent elsewhere and may have been incinerated.<br \/><br \/>Hospital officials and police have declined to say exactly how the baby ended up in the trash.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;The investigation failed to uncover any evidence of criminal conduct, but rather indicated this unfortunate incident was the result of procedural deficiencies and human error,&#8221; Comey said.<br \/><br \/>The baby was delivered Dec. 21. Hospital officials say it was stillborn, but the mother, 26-year-old Kalynn Moore, said her son was born alive with a weak heartbeat and died about 20 minutes later as doctors tried to save him.<br \/><br \/>Whether the child was stillborn is an important legal distinction because New Jersey law does not recognize stillborn babies as human.<br \/><br \/>Moore&#8217;s lawyer, Michael Anise, has said that a lawsuit is likely. He maintains there is no reason for the body of a fetus to have been thrown into the trash.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 1\/8\/2009JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital&#8217;s trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.&#8220;We have come to the harsh reality that efforts to locate the remains of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,149,148,145,3,150,144,147],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby-lost-in-trash","tag-fetus-rights","tag-hospital-morgue-mishaps","tag-hospital-negligence","tag-hospital-procedural-neglect","tag-infant-remains","tag-new-jersey-baby","tag-stillborn-babies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}