Bug-covered baby found abandoned at Houston-area apartments

A newborn baby was found outside a Houston apartment complex early Thursday covered in ants, according to multiple media reports.

"She had the mucus and the blood and umbilical cord and everything", he told KHOU. Inside they discovered two individuals, including a 21-year-old lady who confessed to being the child's mom, as per KPRC. The unidentified woman claimed she didn't know anything about a baby girl being placed behind the bushes.

CBS affiliate KHOU-TV spoke with Albert Peterson - the man who rescued the newborn - about the incident.

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The baby girl is in the NICU at Texas Children's Hospital in The Woodlands and according to deputies, she is in good condition.

Investigators say the mother and another person are in custody and could face charges. "I heard some crying and wining and crying, and I kept walking until I got closer to the noise, and then I look at the ground and there was a baby down there", said Peterson. "You see her impressions on the ground".

"Had this neighbor not been here, we'd be taking a gander at a manslaughter", Harris County delegate Thomas Gilliland told the news station.

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The mother was examined by paramedics and is expected to be OK. Child Protective Services is requesting temporary custody of the baby.

Police estimated the baby to be about an hour hold when it was discovered.

CPS encourages parents who are unable to care for their newborn to "to call the hotline (1-877-904-SAVE), or find a hospital, fire station or EMS station and give their child to an employee there".

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All 50 states have safe haven laws to protect babies from abandonment and infanticide. He says he can't imagine how someone could abandon a helpless infant. "I picked her up, cleaned her off, put her in a sheet and took her in my house", Peterson said.