It was in August last year when a worker stopped the machines and raised the alarm at the waste treatment plant in Alhendín.

A baby had appeared amongst the rubbish. Because it was assumed that the child could still be barely alive, the Civil Guard requested paramedics at the scene. Unfortunately, they could only confirm that the newborn baby was dead.

Since then the Guardia Civil have been investigating this very complex case. Information available at the time indicated that it was a newborn baby and was alive at birth. The body, which had been loaded, unwittingly into a rubbish lorry about 12 hours beforehand, showed no signs of having been physically mistreated.

During their investigation they discovered that the body had been place in a rubbish hopper on the Costa Tropical, thanks to an exhaustive examination of the rubbish on the conveyor belt several metres on either side of the baby’s body.

This certainly was no easy task to determine this as the Alhendin Rubbish Recycling Plant caters for 174 municipalities; amongst them, the city of Granada itself.

As for the mother, she hadn’t given birth in any private or public medical facilities, so she most likely gave birth at home. As for hiding a pregnancy, it is often achieved by wearing a corsette, so that not even people close to the mother are away of her pregnancy.

A search of the DNA obtained from the umbilical cord has thrown up no matches of mothers on the data base. This does not mean that sometime in the future the mother’s DNA info won’t turn up on the data base.

So, the investigation continues. The Guardia Civil had made public a number to call if they had any information that could lead to the mother but since then nobody has called.

We ran a news article at the time of the discovery which you can find via this link.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Newborn, Baby, Rubbish Recycling, Discovered, Police Investigation, Alhendin, Dna, Costa Tropical