Police in California are investigating after a day-old baby girl was found dead in a trash bin outside a home in Los Angeles’s Woodland Hills neighborhood.

Police told KTLA that they were notified after a 23-year-old woman, bleeding extensively, arrived at a hospital. Doctors determined she had just given birth.

Officers went to her home in Woodland Hills and found the newborn in a trash bin in the front yard.

A spokesperson said the department’s child abuse unit is investigating the death as a homicide, but no further information was released.

“She is fully cooperating with the police,” Tiffany Feder, the woman’s attorney, told KNBC. “We’re gonna let the investigation run its course.”

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