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Newborn Brooklyn baby thrown out with trash, mom arrested

A bundled newborn baby was found alive this morning at the bottom of a Brooklyn housing complex’s trash compactor, where police say the mother threw the boy out with the garbage, authorities said.

The 18-year-old mother, Laquasia Wright, was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a maintenance worker at the Fort Green site heard the baby’s cries and found the child just before 9:30 a.m, cops said.

The conscious boy was rushed to nearby Brooklyn Hospital, where he was reported in stable condition.

Cops canvassed the Walt Whitman houses along Cumberland Walk in search of the mother. Hours later, cops emerged with Wright from the building’s eighth floor.

Officials were uncertain about how many floors the baby fell in the building’s garbage chute.

An associate of the maintenance worker said he was “extremely torn up” about the discovery.

Neighbors said they wished the mother had sought help.

“I saw the baby bundled up,” said one resident. “Thank God it was still breathing. It was a newborn. It’s like someone didn’t want it. Plenty of people would have taken that child and raised it right.”