Florida residents shocked after baby boy found dead inside dumpster

Florida residents were shocked after the body of a baby boy was found inside a dumpster by a construction worker who detected a foul odor as he was throwing away debris. The Infinity Roofing worker made the gruesome discovery about 8 a.m. Monday in the dumpster outside an apartment building on Rodman Street in Hollywood, the Sun Sentinel reported .

An official with the company notified police in a 911 call released Tuesday. “One of my job sites, we’re a roofing company, we have found a child in a dumpster. It was a child, a kid, a human,” the man says in the chilling call. “My crew arrived to the site to start the day and I guess they realized when they were going to throw debris in the dumpster that they see the child inside, so they called me and I’m calling you, I’m not there on site,” he says.

The 911 dispatcher answers: “If you could just tell them not to disturb anything on the scene, we do already have help on the way,” according to NBC Miami . When asked how old the child appears to be, the worker says he doesn’t know. “They are not sure if it’s a boy or a girl, they said a little child,” the caller adds.

David Vasquez, the worker who found the body, said he “smelled a bad odor” at the dumpster, where he saw a blue grocery bag,” CBS News reported . “I went to open the bag. When I opened the bag, I saw the baby and it was already lifeless,” Vasquez told the outlet, adding that the infant looked like a newborn and believes the bag was placed there over the weekend.

Area resident Eugene Yakymiw called it “gut wrenching.” “I’ve been here for 40 years. I never, never, ever, we’ve never had things like this. I’m just like, I don’t know, it’s shocking, it’s disgusting,” Yakymiw told CBS News. “It’s unbelievable. It’s like if people don’t want a baby they could have gave it up to the firemen or leave it at a hospital,” Roger Cote, who also lives in the area, told the outlet.

He said the dumpster had been there for several weeks. “They change it once in a while. I’ve been here for 12 years and it’s the first time I’ve heard of something like this,” Cote said. “It definitely hurts. (Some) people try to make babies but they can’t make babies, they can’t conceive.

They could have placed it up for adoption.” Neighbor Jessica Gort, a therapist, wondered what led someone to discard their child. “I wonder how this might correlate with the way the abortion laws have come about,” she told CBS News. “Are we going to see more things like this? Are there girls who are terrified, not knowing what to do?” Florida law promoted by the Miami based A Safe Haven allows parents to surrender newborns to firefighters and hospital workers without providing their names.

An autopsy will determine the baby’s cause of death while homicide detectives continue the investigation. “If you live near this area, this is the 1700 block of Rodman Street in Hollywood, and you have a Ring camera, and you believe you have some sort of footage on your Ring camera or your doorbell camera, please don’t hesitate to call us,” police spokesperson Christian Lata said, according to NBC Miami.

“Also, a lot of people now have Teslas and those vehicles have 24/7 surveillance around the cars, and you live around the area and you have one of those vehicles that are constantly recording, take a second, look at your vehicle and see if you have anything that would be useful to us,” he added.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Hollywood Police Department at 954 764 4357 or 954 967 4567. Tipsters also can email or text to hollywoodpdtips@hollywoodfl.org . Information also can be given to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954 493 8477 or browardcrimestoppers.org..