A mom from Mexico who was arrested
after leaving her newborn boy in a bathroom trash can at a city hospital swears she didn’t know she was pregnant — and hadn’t realized she had thrown her baby away.
“I thought it was just blood,” Lucia Garcia, 21, told The Post in Spanish from her Staten Island home on Saturday.
“I didn’t know
I put my baby in the trash until the nurse told me later.”
Garcia was arrested May 20, when she was found covered in blood at Staten Island University Hospital.
A police officer working security and cleaning staff heard the baby’s cries, and found the newborn boy in the garbage can.
“I was in handcuffs in my bed at the hospital,” Garcia said, adding there was a police officer sitting in a chair in the corner of her room.
She was charged with two counts of assault, two counts of reckless endangerment and one count of acting in a manner injurious to a child, online records show.
