'We really just wanted to give baby Madison Doe a final rest in peace,' the police chief said.
More than 100 people packed an Ohio funeral home to say goodbye to a newborn who was found dead in a garbage truck earlier this month, according to local police and media reports.
The baby girl was discovered in the rear collection part of the truck on Thursday, June 15 on the border of Plain City, an Ohio village of roughly 4,000 people, police said. While the coroner's preliminary report shows the little girl appeared to be a"full-term newborn" with her umbilical cord still attached, a cause of death was not revealed, Plain City Police Chief Dale McKee told local media last week.
Plain City residents on Saturday morning paid their respects and said goodbye to the unidentified newborn, named Madison Baby Doe by community leaders because she was found in Madison County, according toCommunity donations covered the cost of her funeral, McKee said, adding that Forest Grove Cemetery and Ferguson Funeral Home provided the services for free.
In the Getty image, Gabriel Tavarez prepares equipment inside of a hearse at Perches Funeral Home in El Paso, Texas, on December 4, 2020. On Saturday, more than 100 community members gathered in Plain City, Ohio for the funeral of an unidentified newborn found in the back of a garbage truck earlier this month.reached out via email to Plain City Police Chief Dale McKee, Plain City village officials and Ferguson's Funeral Home.
"Madison will never be forgotten," the obituary reads, noting that the newborn was found by"two heroes who will remain nameless."
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