MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis police are questioning a report that a 1-month-old baby was dropped 11 stories down a trash chute.
A statement from city police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph states police are investigating the exact sequence of events and whether it really happened, as the baby’s mother said it did.
The Commercial Appeal quoted police in reporting the baby was found in a trash bin at the bottom of the chute Sunday and was taken to a hospital with noncritical injuries.
Police identify the baby’s mother as 32-year-old Rachelle Nelson.
Property manager Mick Hix said the trash bin was emptied about a half-hour before the child was found there, so there would have been little to cushion his fall, had he been dropped.