Police in upstate New York are describing a horrifying crime that might've proved deadly if not for what the Elmira Star Gazette describes as a "miracle."
According to the Elmira Police Department, a 17-year-old girl placed her 8-month-old daughter in a plastic bag and abandoned her behind an Elmira home on Saturday.
Three days later, two women heard a noise they thought was coming from an animal in distress, reports WENY. As they moved toward the noise around 1pm Tuesday, they instead saw the infant's feet poking out of the bag. "Her head was in the bag, her whole head was covered all the way down," says one of the women. She says she ripped open the plastic to find the 8-month-old covered in waste but miraculously alive.
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