Baby's corpse thrown out with hospital's trash

Police are searching garbage dumps in the US states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at Jersey City's Christ Hospital.

devastated: Kalynn Moore with her son Bashere who was stillborn on December 21

Police are searching garbage dumps in the US states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at Jersey City's Christ Hospital.

Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Davy said the baby was stillborn on December 21 and the body was placed in the hospital morgue. The body was gone when a funeral home employee came to pick it up on January 2.

The baby's mother said he was born alive and died after doctors worked to stabilise him for 20 minutes.

Kalynn Moore's attorney, Michael Anise, said a nurse cleaned up the baby, dressed him in a hat and blanket and gave the baby to the mother to hold.

Moore named her son Bashere Davon Moyd Jr.

Whether the child was born is important because a stillborn is not considered a person under New Jersey law.