Newborn Abandoned in Motel Room Littered With Beer Cans
Monday, June 01, 2009 
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A newborn is being cared for at a hospital after being found abandoned — umbilical cord still attached — in a West Springfield motel room littered with empty beer cans.
Police said the baby was discovered early Saturday by a couple returning to the room next door at the Welcome Inn.
Kimberly Dougherty told the Republican newspaper of Springfield that she heard a weak cry coming from the next room. The door was ajar and when she entered, she found the baby girl lying on her back in the middle of a double bed.
Dougherty said she and her husband wrapped the baby in towels until paramedics arrived and took the infant to Baystate Medical Center.
Dougherty guessed that the baby was only an hour or two old.
Police ID woman who
abandoned infant
Updated: Monday, 01 Jun 2009, 9:29 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 01 Jun 2009, 12:01 PM EDT www.wwlp.com
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - West Springfield police know the identity of the woman who gave birth and abandoned her infant daughter in a motel room at Welcome Inn.
West Springfield Police Sergent Thomas Wilkinson told 22News that police are looking for a Holyoke woman, but he would not provide her name to us.
Sgt Wilkinson said the woman will be charged with abandonment of an infant.
A motel guest and her husband at the Welcome Inn heard the baby crying early Saturday morning and discovered the freshly-born baby, bloody, with her umbilical cord still attached.
Massachusetts has a safe-haven law where a parent can leave a baby at a designated facility, without fear of facing charges.
