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An infant girl was left in a dumpster in McPherson, Kansas, and fortunately someone found her alive and well.

The 18-year-old mother of an infant found alive Tuesday in a McPherson trash Dumpster has become the focus of a police investigation into the girl’s disappearance.

The 6-week-old baby was discovered shortly after 1 p.m. on some plastic bags in a Dumpster in an alley two blocks from where she lives. The alley is between Maple and Walnut streets and between Hill and Woodside streets, McPherson Police Chief Dennis Shaw said.

Her cries were heard by officers and Emergency Medical Service workers searching the area in northwest McPherson.

“It appeared some care had been taken to place the baby in the Dumpster,” Shaw said.

A newborn that was found in a St. Louis yard waste dumpster is recovering in state custody.

“The baby was about a foot down right up against the front of the dumpster,” said Wesley Falker in an interview with Fox 2 Tuesday.

Falker found the newborn baby boy inside the dumpster just before nine. The scene was just behind Wesley’s home on the 5700 hundred block of Waterman. Wesley tells Fox 2 he was just about to throw his lawn clippings into the dumpster when he heard a sound.

“I started to reach for the trash can and I heard the baby cry,” explained Falker.