{"id":482100,"date":"2026-10-01T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482100\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:20:09","slug":"south-la-mother-charged-with-murder-after-her-infant-was-found-in-dumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482100\/","title":{"rendered":"South LA mother charged with murder after her infant was found in dumpster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old South Los Angeles mother has been charged with murder after her 4-month-old daughter was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/infant-found-dead-inside-dumpster-in-south-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead inside a dumpster earlier this week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Takiyah Babers, the child&#8217;s biological mother, faces one count of murder and one felony count of assault on a child, causing death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a Sept. 28 evening call for a death investigation in the 5200 block of Alba Street. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-01-144834.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-10-01-144834.png \" height=\"359\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Takiyah Babers, center, with her foster parents, Laura Lacy and Herman Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said a woman was looking for recyclables in a dumpster when she discovered the infant. Officers said the child was wrapped in a blanket when they arrived. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The baby&#8217;s foster grandmother, Laura Lacy, said that baby Luna had been in her care and that she had allowed Babers, her foster daughter, to visit the baby. <\/p>\n<p>Lacy said she and her husband dropped Luna off at Barbers&#8217; home in the Puebla del Rio housing complex on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-01-144857.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-10-01-144857.png \" height=\"387\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Baby Luna<\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>Lacy said they rushed over to their foster daughter&#8217;s place after hearing the news. They said they couldn&#8217;t find Luna.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lacy was distraught and in disbelief that Luna, the baby she raised for four months, had died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The foster family stood together at the beginning of the LAPD&#8217;s investigation until officers placed Babers in handcuffs and led her away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would you throw her away? She didn&#8217;t do anything,&#8221; Lacy said.<\/p>\n<p>Babers is expected to appear in court for her arraignment on Thursday afternoon. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old South Los Angeles mother has been charged with murder after her 4-month-old daughter was found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-482100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}