ISABELLA MARIE DeJAYNES - Newborn - Liverpool/ Syracuse NY

A man looking inside a large metal trash bin at a Liverpool
apartment complex for scrap wood Thursday night at first thought he
found a doll someone had tossed away, Liverpool Police Chief William J.
Becker said.

The man gave a second look and made the horrifying realization he had
found a dead newborn in the green Waste Management bin at the Pearl
Street Apartments in the village, Becker said.

The man called Liverpool police to the scene about 10:30 p.m. in the
200 block of Pearl Street and called the department, Chief William
Becker said.

Police are searching for the parents of the child, but the mother had
not been located. Police have developed leads they think may eventually
lead to her, but are hoping she will come forward if she can, Becker
said. Investigators have surveyed hospitals to see if anyone came in
seeking medical attention.

“We are in fact concerned about the health and welfare of the mother of
the child,” Becker said. “We want to try and make contact to ensure that
she is not in need of medical assistance as well.”

The man, who is not being identified, told police he was looking for
wood for a project he was doing. The man stayed on the scene with police
into the morning hours, Becker said. Police have no reason to doubt the
man's story, he said.

The Pearl Street Apartments is one of several complexes in the same
area off Old Liverpool Road on the village’s southern fringe.




Rural Metro Ambulance crew members pronounced the infant dead at the scene, Becker said.

Cold temperatures made it impossible at the scene to estimate the
time or determine the cause of death, he said. The baby was brought to
the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s office where an autopsy will be
performed to determine whether the infant was stillborn or born alive
and to find the cause of death.

“The autopsy will bring answers,“ Becker said.

Officials are not releasing the gender of the infant and are holding
back other details to prevent people from reporting information to
police that they heard through the media rather than knew first-hand, he
said. Anyone with information should call his department at 457-0722.

Meanwhile, officers will be knocking on doors this morning in hope of
locating witnesses, he said. Liverpool police are being helped by
investigators from other departments in Onondaga County.

Whether this becomes a criminal matter depends on the circumstances, he
said. The medical examiner’s conclusions will help officials make that
call. Becker said he had consulted with the district attorney’s office
already and expected to discuss new information that developed overnight
with DA’s officials this morning.

“There are so many different scenarios that could be in play right now,
based on this,” Becker said. “We are not trying to judge, we’re just
trying to locate who the parents are and bring it to a conclusion by
interviewing them.”

Police removed the large metal trash bin in which the infant’s body
was found and another one about 15 feet away. They were brought to the
Department of Public Works garage. There, in a well-lit place away from
the 15-degree cold and wet surroundings of the Pearl Street Apartments
parking lot, investigators went through them seeking evidence, Becker
said.

The two bins had bracketed a row of smaller trash containers and were
close enough to each other that investigators wanted to probe both for
clues, he said. Becker said that all the smaller containers were empty.

One Pearl Street Apartments resident, who asked not to be identified,
first found out about the baby when she was approached by a reporter as
she was throwing out trash at the bins. She said she was in the shower
when she heard a knock on the door about 7 a.m. and never met with the
police.

Several others brushing snow off cars were similarly surprised by the
news. All said the complex of five buildings with 12 apartment units
per building was a quiet place.

Parents who cannot care for their newborn children do have options. A
law, New York's Abandoned Infant Protection Act of 2000 authored by
former State senator Nancy Larraine Hoffmann of Fabius, protects parents
who leave their newborns "with a responsible person at another safe
location."

Safe locations include hospitals, fire stations and police stations.

Nicole C. DeJaynes, the woman accused of putting her newborn in a
Liverpool trash bin, is already the mother of a 5-year-old, Onondaga
County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said this morning.
DeJaynes was arraigned Friday night before Liverpool Village Judge Anthony LaValle on a charge of second-degree murder.
She is being held without bail in the Onondaga County Justice Center.
If her lawyer chooses, DeJaynes could appear at a preliminary hearing sometime before Wednesday, Fitzpatrick said.
“I anticipate the medical examiner will have final conclusions by then,” he said.
One of the questions prosecutors need to answer is whether the
newborn, named Isabella Marie by Liverpool police officers, was still
born or born alive and placed in the trash bin later.
If the child was stillborn, the mother could face misdemeanor charges, Fitzpatrick said at a Friday news conference.
If convicted of second degree murder DeJaynes, 29, could face a maximum of 25 years to life in prison, he said this morning.
DeJaynes has a 5-year-old child, but he did not know the child’s sex,
Fitzpatrick said this morning. The Department of Social Services is involved with the case, he said.
The child is being cared for by its grandmother, First Chief Assistant District Attorney Rick Trunfio said this morning.
In his time with the office, Fitzpatrick said he can recall five cases in which the mother has disposed of a child in some way.
A man looking for scrap wood in a trash bin behind the Pearl Street
Apartments in Liverpool found the newborn’s body on Jan. 6.
The police asked for the public’s help in finding its parents, and a tip from the public lead to DeJaynes.
She didn’t admit anything when she was first questioned by the police
four days ago, police said. Since then she has given them a statement, they said.
DeJaynes expressed no remorse to police, said Liverpool Police Chief William Becker at a news conference Friday afternoon.
At the news conference, Fitzpatrick said he would not charge the
baby’s mother until there was further review of the facts, circumstances
and more complete findings from the medical examiner.
However, police were not notified when DeJaynes was released Friday from a medical facility where she was being evaluated.
“With that critical change in circumstance, combined with concern
that she would be a flight risk, District Attorney Fitzpatrick
determined that the time table of the charging decision had to be
expedited,” a news release said Friday night.

http://www.eaglestarreview.com/photos/2012/jan/17/7194/
Nicole C. DeJaynes, indicted on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter after last year’s death of her newborn daughter in the village of Liverpool, rejected a plea deal last week which would have guaranteed her a sentence of 15 years in prison.
DeJaynes rejects deal


Nicole C. DeJaynes appeared in Onondaga County Court on Wednesday, Jan. 11. She stood before Judge Anthony Aloi who presented the defendant with a plea deal that would have allowed her to forgo a jury trial on charges of second-degree murder. DeJaynes, 30, was indicted on Nov. 17 in connection with the death of her newborn daughter who was found in a Liverpool trash bin last January. An Onondaga County Grand Jury also charged DeJaynes with two counts of first-degree manslaughter.

• January 17, 2012
  

http://www.eaglestarreview.com/news/2012/feb/15/nicole-dejaynes-faces-july-9-trial-infanticide/
Nicole Dejaynes Faces July 9 Trial For Infanticide
As of Wednesday, February 15, 2012 -9:59 p.m.




#Liverpool — A trial date has been set for 30-year-old Nicole C. DeJaynes, the town of Clay woman indicted for second-degree murder in connection with the death of her newborn daughter discovered Jan. 6, 2010, in a trash bin in the village of Liverpool. DeJaynes also faces a charge of first-degree manslaughter.

#Last week, County Judge Anthony Aloi scheduled her trial to start at 10:30 a.m. July 9.

#DeJaynes and her defense attorney, Thomas W. Ryan, appeared in County Court on Feb. 14. First Chief Assistant District Attorney Rick Trunfio represented the prosecution.

#On Jan. 11, Aloi had offered the defendant a sentence of 15 years in prison in return for pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter rather than to stand trial for murder, but DeJaynes rejected the offer.

#On Feb. 14, Aloi ruled that the grand jury heard evidence sufficient to support the murder and manslaughter charges lodged against he defendant.

#If convicted of second-degree murder, DeJaynes could be imprisoned for 25 years to life.

#In court last week Trunfio addressed the possibility that the defendant may deny she gave birth to the baby whose corpse was found in the trash. In that case, Trunfio said he’d ask Aloi to order a DNA sample taken from DeJaynes. Aloi agreed that if she denies she’s the dead baby’s mother, he would order the DNA sample.

#When DeJaynes was interviewed by police On Jan. 13, 2010, however, she admitted she gave birth to the baby. She was arrested the next day. Later she told her lawyer the baby was hers, but denied suffocating the infant which she believed was stillborn.

#On the night of Jan. 6, 2010, a the dead body of an infant girl was found wrapped in a towel in one of two Waste Management trash bins at the Pearl Street Apartments parking lot. Investigators later determined that the baby had been born at the adjacent Hiddenbrook Terrace apartments. DeJaynes subsequently told them she had been visiting a friend’s apartment there.

#Prior to the mother’s arrest, the Liverpool Police Department named the baby Isabella Marie.

#DeJaynes, who lists her address as 4336 Forestbrook Drive, off Morgan Road in Clay, remains held without bail at the Corbett Justice Center in Syracuse.