A newborn baby with his umbilical cord still attached was barely breathing when it was found in a dumpster at an apartment complex Tuesday morning, MyFoxHouston.com reported. 
 
 The infant was discovered upside down in a trash bag by Carlos Michel, a maintenance man at the complex, after he heard the baby crying, The Houston Chronicle reported. 
 
 "It made a big impact," Michel, who is a grandfather, told the paper. 
 
 Police told the paper that the baby is at the Hermann hospital and is doing fine. They are trying to locate the baby's parents. The child was reportedly found inside a bag with food leftovers and papers that appear to be homework assignments with a student's name on it. ||||| A newborn child has been found in a plastic bag tossed in the dumpster of a Houston apartment complex. 
 
 A newborn child has been found in a plastic bag tossed in the dumpster of a Houston apartment complex. 
 
 A newborn child has been found in a plastic bag tossed in the dumpster of a Houston apartment complex. 
 
 A newborn child has been found in a plastic bag tossed in the dumpster of a Houston apartment complex. 
 
 An infant is recovering in the hospital after being left in a large garbage bin in a southeast Houston apartment complex. 
 
 It happened at the Reserve at Windmill Lakes on Almeda Genoa Road at around 8 a.m. Tuesday. 
 
 Houston police say the child was barely breathing when he was found. 
 
 
 
 A worker was dumping trash when he heard a noise. 
 
 "I opened a white plastic garbage bag and saw the baby," said Carlos Mitchell in Spanish. "He was cold. Maybe hours old." 
 
 Paramedics took the baby boy to a hospital where he is apparently doing well. Investigators are trying to find out who the mother is. They believe she's a teen girl who lives on the property. 
 
 Child Protective Services will also investigate the incident. 
 
 
 
 The so called "Baby Moses" law was passed to prevent incidents like this that often don't end so well. You can take a baby to any place that offers 24-hour medical care and leave it with a person, according to the law. ||||| The woman on the surveillance video arrived at the Tucson International Airport as an expectant mother — and walked out without her newborn baby. 
 
 This week, the Tucson Airport Authority released new information about a Jan. 14 incident, including a video, revealing chilling new details about a woman who authorities say abandoned a newborn in an airport bathroom around 9 p.m. A rental call employee found the boy and a note. 
 
 “I just want what is best for him and it is not me. Please. Im sorry,” the note read. 
 
 The baby was found with a torn umbilical cord and responding medics clamped it to prevent any harm, an airport police report said. 
 
 Juana Quintana, a custodian, told police she encountered the woman and asked if she was okay after seeing pools of blood on a bathroom floor. The baby was naked with its eyes closed, Quintana said, but the woman said the baby was three months old and left in a hurried manner. 
 
 Quintana said she found bloody clothes in the trash can with paper towels on top in an apparent effort to conceal them. 
 
 The baby appeared healthy otherwise and was transported to a nearby hospital, airport spokeswoman Jessie Butler said in summary provided to The Washington Post. The baby is now in the custody of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, she said. 
 
 The airport authority also released photos of the scene and the handwritten letter found with the child. 
 
 “Please help me. My mom had no idea she was pregnant. She is unable and unfit to take care of me. Please get me to the authorities so they can find a good home,” the message said, scrawled on notebook paper in the voice of the newborn. 
 
 
 
 A handwritten letter found at the scene. (Tucson Airport Authority) 
 
 The note then switches to what appears to be a plea and apology from the mother. 
 
 The woman may have acted under assumption she was protected by regulations designed for new mothers to leave newborns with authorities without penalty. The law, known as the safe-haven law or Baby Moses law, allows newborns to be left at designated areas like hospitals and firehouses to prevent the deadly practice of stranding unwanted babies. It applies in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., though states have differing regulations. 
 
 In 1999, Texas became the first state to pass a safe-haven law following reports of 13 abandoned babies in the Houston area in the first 10 months of the year, which prompted public outcry and legislative action, according to a Nevada state government review of the legal framework. The concept has roots in a similar series of abandoned babies in Alabama in 1998. 
 
 But the airports are not among facilities commonly designated as safe havens. Criminal charges have yet to be determined, the Arizona Daily Star reported, and the woman remains unidentified. 
 
 “We would like to know who she is but we’ve exhausted our resources,” Butler told the paper. In a summary of the incident, Butler said the airport police are not actively looking for the woman but will pursue any leads they receive. 
 
 In Arizona, babies must be under 72 hours old and unharmed to be legally abandoned, and has led to 40 rescues in the state and more than 3,300 nationwide, the Arizona Safe Baby Haven Foundation says. 
 
 The group lists six hospitals in the state where “drawers” are used to discreetly leave babies behind, though none of them are in Tucson. At one of the hospitals, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, a drawer is connected to an internal alarm that alerts hospital staff of a dropped baby, according to a 2014 story by Raising Arizona Kids magazine. 
 
 “We hear stories where a baby is abandoned, or a mother who has had a baby doesn’t know what to do, doesn’t know who to turn to. There are a lot of different things that are probably going through a mother’s mind. There is a lot of fear,” said Kimberly Marshall, a nurse practitioner and co-founder of the Arizona Safe Baby Haven Foundation. 
 
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– A baby boy is reportedly in good condition after he was found, cold, wet, and purple-faced in a Houston apartment building's trash. Maintenance worker Carlos Michel discovered the newborn after hearing sounds coming from a blue Dumpster yesterday morning, the Houston Chronicle reports. "I almost had a heart attack," he says. He stepped on a bucket and looked over the trash bags; the baby was in one, upside down alongside homework and leftover food, Fox News reports. "He was cold. Maybe hours old," Michel says, per MyFox Houston. Michel wrapped the boy in his shirt and warmed him in a pickup truck; the child never opened his eyes before paramedics rushed him to the hospital, Michel says. Child Protective Services will take custody of the baby, born to a 16-year-old girl who acknowledged putting him in the Dumpster, though details haven't been released. She was also hospitalized. Texas, notes the Chronicle, has a "Moses law" that allows parents to surrender newborns without fear of repercussions. It's not yet clear whether the mother will face charges.