Dominique Harrison appeared in court nearly a decade after her son’s death
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A Connecticut woman was charged with murder eight years after her newborn son was allegedly placed in a dumpster.
Dominique Harrison appeared in court for an arraignment on murder charges, according to News 12, Fox 61 and the News-Times.
Per Fox 61 and News 12, Harrison’s son was found in Stamford, Conn., in October 2018.
News 12 reported that the boy’s body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there. Police eventually determined that the child had been killed in Danbury, about 30 miles away, according to the outlets.
The Danbury Police Department said on June 18 that it arrested Harrison. Authorities did not specify why it took six years to arrest a suspect in the case.
“The facts allege she put that newborn baby son alive in a dumpster in a remote area so that no one could save that baby’s life,” Assistant State’s Attorney Mary Caitlin Harding said, per Fox 61.
Harding, according to the outlet, said the state was unable to discuss details of the case publicly, but asserted that “facts all will point to the fact that this defendant murdered her newborn child.”
It is not immediately clear if Harrison has entered a plea, but per News 12, her attorney requested that she be placed on suicide watch while in custody.
Harding reportedly told the News-Times that additional charges could be pending and called Harrison a “danger to society.”
