Baby found dead at recycling plant

A white, newborn, baby girl was found dead among garbage designated for recycling at A & R Lobosco, Inc. on Farrington Street in an industrial section of Flushing at approximately 11:20 a.m. on Monday, November 6. Although the exact cause of death has not yet been determined, the girl's umbilical cord was still attached and wrapped around her throat.
A worker at Lobosco, Louis Scalba, found the infant's body while sorting garbage brought in by Sanitation Department trucks. According to sources at the plant, videotape footage will allow police to narrow the source of the body to four trucks, each with a known route.
Scalba reported his gruesome find to the office and the plant was shut down to allow for the police investigation. Shortly after 3 p.m., the plant reopened and work returned to normal. By 4 p.m., the bustling plant was alive with sanitation trucks and bulldozers as workers went about their business.
Inside the pressed-concrete block building, garbage was piled 15 to 20 feet high. Garbage is delivered by Sanitation trucks and then sorted on a conveyor belt. The corpse was found among the garbage destined for recycling.
Police have no leads about the identity of the baby's parents.