LODI, Calif. (KCRA) – Police investigating the death of a newborn whose body was found in a California parking lot say a woman accused of abandoning the baby has been charged.
It’s hard for Silvia Gonzales, a cashier at Commissary Azteca, to describe how it felt when she saw the body of a baby Thursday morning in the parking lot of a neighboring business in Lodi.
“I wanted to cry,” she said.
Gonzales says her coworker first spotted the baby’s body while he was taking his lunch break just after 11:30 a.m.
“He tried to sit down on the floor, he turned around and he see the baby,” she said.
The man ran back inside the store for help, Gonzales says. That’s when she went outside and saw the body. She says the baby didn’t look to be any older than a few hours.
“When I see it, I try to see if they move or …