US: Baby's body thrown out with hospital rubbish

US police are searching tips for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the rubbish at a hospital.

“It’s like they treated my son like he’s nothing,” said Kalynn Moore, the 26-year-old mother. “It hurts so bad.”

Ms Moore gave birth to Bashere Davon Moyd at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey on December 21, about a month before her due date. Her cousin Nicia Royster said she went with a nurse that day to place the corpse in the hospital’s morgue.

Hospital officials went to Moore’s home in the city on January 2 and told her that a funeral home had come to pick up the remains, but they could not be found.

Police said the body was thrown in the rubbish, but they did not know when. The hospital has not officially said the baby was thrown in the rubbish but didn’t dispute the police statement.

A spokeswoman for Christ Hospital said they were praying for the baby’s family. But the family and the hospital disagree over whether Bashere was born alive.

Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Davey said the baby was stillborn.

Ms Moore, who has a five-year-old son, said she was in and out of consciousness in the minutes after the 5lb boy was born. But she said the baby was born alive and that she held him briefly before doctors spent more than 20 minutes trying to stabilise his heart rate before he died.

Her lawyer, Michael Anise, said a lawsuit was likely and that there was no reason that a body of a baby – born alive or not – should be put in the rubbish.