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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.

Well at least these jerks didn’t claim they put their kids in the dryer so they could have fun.

A Camden County couple was charged with child abuse for allegedly putting two children in a clothes dryer.

The Camden County Sheriff’s Department accused Nicole Eberhart, 29, and her boyfriend, Stephen Ray Jr., 26, of placing Eberhart’s two children — 8 and 10 years old — into the dryer.

The pair are each charged with two counts of felony child abuse, the sheriff’s department said.

Ray is also accused of hitting the children. He was charged with violating his probation and is being held without bond. He has a first court date on the child abuse charges on Thursday.

More Teachers Gone Wild™! Melissa Moss, an English teacher at Barat Academy (we totally read that as Borat Academy, which would be an interesting school) in Dardenne Prairie — a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri — has been charged with taking topless photos of herself and emailing them to a 15-year-old boy in her class. The boys parents found the naughty pics and reported the teacher to the school and the police. And we’re sure the boy didn’t share the photos with *any* of his friends….

We talked with the Robert and Kelly Pfeiffer- their son was in Moss’ class.

They say they thought she was a great teacher and they’re stunned by the charges.

“It is very disturbing and you know it’s kind of a sign of the times the way we live with a lot of internet access and Face book and things like that. As a parent you have to be on constant vigil to make sure, you have to know what your kids are getting into,” said Robert Pfeiffer.

His wife, Kelly, added, “I was kind of shocked because I worked with her a lot as far as one on one talking to her you know about his grades and keeping up with them and I thought she was a really nice teacher. So when this came about, it really shocked me.”

Barat Academy is a private, independent catholic high school that opened last September.