Anda Rosa Mora / Photo from Chicago Police
Ana Rosa Mora has been charged with murder after her newborn son was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a Northwest Side gangway this month.
The newborn boy was found in a gangway in the 2700 block of North Hamlin Avenue about 8:30 a.m. April 19, authorities said. The infant was dead at the scene.
A police source described the baby as a “full-term male infant” believed to be 1 day old.
Mora, 18, of the 2700 block of North Hamlin, was arrested Friday and charged with murder after she admitted to putting the live infant inside a plastic bag and leaving him lying in the gangway, police said.
On Saturday, Mora was ordered held on $500,000 bond and given a next court date of April 28.
— Sun-Times Media Wire