44 yr old Candy Vigneri gives birth portable toilet abandoning newborn

Cambridge WWII Monument at Long Wharf Park

I was on Twitter yesterday when I ran across this story from CNN, and I could not believe what I was reading!  Apparently, no one else could either as it generated a lot of Twitter chatter.  I thought I would look into the story a little more and post it here.

This occurred in Cambridge, Maryland and the lady’s name is Candy Vigneri, age 44 years.  She was at Long Wharf Park inside a portable toilet when she gave birth and then dropped the baby into that blue yuck below (makes me sick to my stomach to even retype this).  Afterward, she went outside and asks someone (some sites report a construction worker) for a cigarette.  The details on the story that led to the witness calling 911 and rescuing the baby from the portable toilet are sketchy, but I personally am glad that someone was there to respond quickly and save this baby’s life.

CNN writes, “The baby is in stable condition at Easton Memorial Hospital. Dorchester County social services will take control of the newborn after she is released from the hospital.”

From Baltimore’s ABC-2 News…

Police have charged her with 1st and 2nd degree child abuse and reckless endangerment.

Melissa Cannon knows Vigneri; she says she does have other children. ‘You can tell by the way she looks and by the way she acts that there is really something wrong with her; that she does need some help,’ she said.

The baby girl was over six pounds at birth. Police say she’s in stable condition.

WJLA.com also has an account of this story.

If you run across and further details on this story, please use my contact page or leave a comment here.  As I find more details, I will also update this post.