9-year-old finds abandoned newborn baby in backyard

The placenta and the umbilical cord were both covered in maggots.

Lake County Sheriff John Buncich, during a Monday news conference, said Lake County Sheriff’s Department officers were sent to the 18000 block of White Oak Avenue after receiving a call Monday morning that a baby had been found.

“That’s when she was like, ‘Oh my god it’s a baby, ‘ and I was like, ‘whaaaat?!”

“At first I thought my brain was playing tricks on my ears, and I looked over and I just saw these legs kicking and I thought, ‘Is that a pig?’ ” Elysia Laub said. I could not second guess myself.

Elysia screamed for her mom, Heidi, who was incredulous.

Despite an extensive search with police dogs and a helicopter, the abandoned baby’s mother has yet to be located.

A newborn baby was abandoned in the yard of a northwest in home Monday, wrapped in a black towel and left under the hot summer sun.

Police in northwest in are investigating a report of an abandoned baby.

Authorities have nicknamed her “infant Jane Doe” and their “miracle baby”.

Elysia Laub found the baby outside her rural IN home.

Dawn Geres of the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation spoke to ABC Chicago after the discovery of the newborn and urged mothers who did not want their children to do the responsible thing. “I knew we had to get help”.

Indiana, like most states, does have a Safe Haven Law that allows mothers to give up an unwanted child anonymously and without fear of prosecution.

The baby was taken to the nearby hospital, where she was treated for sunburns, but is being described as a “healthy young girl”, according to NBC Chicago.

Investigators are searching for the newborn’s mother and ask anyone with information to contact the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 1-800-750-2746.