The remains of a newborn baby were found at a Massachusetts recycling plant on Thursday, prosecutors said Friday as police investigated. It's the second infant found dead at the facility this year.
Rochester police initially announced the investigation, saying only that the department was investigating what was believed to be the remains of a baby. They said in a social media post Thursday that a 911 caller had reported the discovery of "what appeared to be the body of a human baby in the recycling products" at Harvey Waste on Cranberry Highway.
Police responded to the call around 10:40 a.m., Rochester police said. Processing at the plant, formerly known as Zero Waste Solutions, was stopped as authorities investigated.
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On Friday morning, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office announced that state police were investigating the newborn's death after a 10:40 a.m. 911 call from the Zero Waste Solutions recycling facility.
"The caller reported that infant remains were found within a trash collection that was trucked to the facility for disposal," the office said in a statement.
The medical examiner was working to determine how the baby died, officials said. They asked anyone with information about what happened to contact state police detectives at 508-894-2648.
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An employee at Harvey confirmed that the facility is the same one where the remains of a newborn baby girl were found in April.
The mother of that child was believed to have been on Martha's Vineyard — the girl's remains were discovered in trash that appeared to have come from Martha's Vineyard, state police said at the time.
But no arrests were announced in that investigation.
