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Babysitter Charged Over 8-Month-Old Found In Dumpster
Police have arrested a Hamden woman -the babysitter - in connection with the discovery of a baby in a Dumpster on Monday, Oct. 12.
Andiana Velez, 24, of Hamden, has been charged with:
- Risk of injury to a child
- Assault second degree
- Reckless endangerment first degree, police said.
Velez is believed to have been the child’s babysitter.
She is due in New Haven Superior Court today, Tuesday, Oct. 13, and is being held on $250,000 bail.
On Monday, maintenance workers found an 8-month-old baby girl with burns to her hands at the Presidential Gardens apartments around 2 p.m., police sai…