A woman believed to be the mother of a baby found in a Sydney bin last month has been charged.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to Harrow Road, Auburn, at 11:20am on August 31 after reports a baby’s body was discovered<\/a> in a garbage bin of a unit block.<\/p>\n If you or anyone you know needs help:Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0131 114Kids Helpline<\/a> on 1800 551 800Beyond Blue<\/a> on 1300 224 63613 YARN<\/a> on 13 92 76Suicide Call Back Service<\/a> on 1300 659 467MensLine Australia<\/a> on 1300 789 978Headspace<\/a> on 1800 650 890ReachOut<\/a>SANE <\/a>on 1800 187 263Call triple-0 if you need immediate care<\/p>\n In a statement on Thursday, NSW Police said a 24-year-old woman “believed to be the mother of the infant” was located and taken to hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n “Upon release from hospital, the woman was arrested and taken to Auburn Police Station,” it read.<\/p>\n She was charged with mother alone conceal birth by disposing body.<\/p>\n She has been granted conditional bail to appear before Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday October 27, 2026.<\/p>\n Acting Superintendent of the Auburn Police Area Command Darren Sly told reporters at the time the unclothed baby boy’s body was found in a plastic bag.<\/p>\n He said the body may have been there for up to 36 hours and it was not known whether the infant had been born alive.<\/p>\n “It’s very traumatic for that particular lady who found that baby,” Acting Superintendent Sly said.<\/p>\n “It’s a newborn baby who now has passed away and of course it’s sad and a horrific set of circumstances.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman believed to be the mother of a baby found in a Sydney bin last month has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[464988,464987,464989,464990,43,464986,44,2733,670,182874,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-895626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-baby-found-in-bin","tag-baby-in-bin","tag-baby-in-sydney-bin","tag-dead-baby-in-bin","tag-headlines","tag-mother-charged","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}