A baby girl tragically died after being found abandoned in the middle of a busy roadway near the Galveston Seawall in Texas.
The deceased infant was initially found alive in the middle of the well-trafficked road around 9:45 am on 59th street in Galveston, between a grocery store and the Beachfront Palms Hotel.
The Galveston Police Department immediately responded to the scene alerting fire and emergency medical personnel on their way.
GPD Chief, Doug Balli, said the infant was urgently rushed to the emergency center at UTMB Health’s John Sealy Hospital.
However, just a short time after her arrival, the unidentified baby girl was pronounced dead, Click2Houston reports.
An investigation is ongoing into the suspect behind leaving the baby on the side of the road, police say.
A press conference to address the heart-wrenching incident will be held at the Galveston County Justice Center at 3 pm local time this afternoon.
This tragedy comes just days after a former Florida college student, Brianna Moore, was arrested over the death of a newborn infant, whose body was found wrapped in a towel and thrown into a waste bin.
The 19-year-old was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with great bodily harm and two other counts including failure to report a death.
An autopsy revealed how the baby girl was found with multiple fractured ribs along her spine and hemorrhaging in her lungs.
The Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death to be homicide.
‘It breaks my heart to know that this baby girl could still be alive today if this woman had alerted authorities that she needed help. Instead, she took actions that directly lead to the death of her newborn baby,’ Lopez said.
‘This baby’s death was avoidable,’ she added.
Prosecutors say Moore’s roommates heard a baby crying in their University of Tampa residence hall the night of April 27 and found blood in their shared bathroom.
Campus security was summoned and Moore told them the blood was from menstruation, Lopez said.
Moore’s roommates then called police again the next day after finding a bloody towel in a trash can. Officers discovered the newborn’s body wrapped in the towel.
Police quickly identified Moore as the baby’s mother.
Florida’s Safe Haven law allows parents to anonymously surrender unwanted infants up to 30 days after birth with no questions asked.
A parent who has just given birth can surrender a child to medical staff at a hospital or any fire station.