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A baby has been found dead in a rubbish pile at a warehouse - sparking a police enquiry as detectives attempt to trace the youngster's mother.
Officers were called to a warehouse in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands on Thursday after staff at a private waste management firm made the grim discovery just before midday.
Detectives believe the baby - thought to be a girl - was unwittingly transported to the Station Road warehouse by waste workers sometime on Wednesday.
They have ruled out the company, which operates across the West Midlands, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Mercia, as having had any role in her death.
Police are now urgently searching for the baby's mother amid growing concerns for her welfare.
'She may also need care, help or treatment of her own,' a West Midlands Police spokesperson said this afternoon.
'You may be a mother, father, friend, teacher or lecturer who has spotted a loved-one who has behaved differently recently.
'We need anyone who can help us find the mother to come forward so we can offer her support from our specialist staff.'
Enquiries are ongoing, including forensics, in order to ascertain how the young girl died.
Police were called to Station Road in Rowley Regis (pictured) yesterday after the body of a baby was found in a rubbish pile
Detective Chief Inspector Kylie Westlake, of West Midlands Police, has urged anyone who may know anything to urgently get in touch using a major incident contact page set up especially for the public to send information.
'While we don't yet know what has happened, what we do know is that there must be a mother out there who is in real need of help − and she is our absolute priority at the moment,' DCI Westlake said.
'We have been checking CCTV and speaking to hospitals, but it may be that the mother or someone who knows who she is sees this appeal.
'I really want to speak to her to make sure she's OK, and to ensure that she can get the help that she urgently needs.'
She added: 'We'll treat information we receive sensitively, and we'd ask for anyone who can help us identify who baby and mother was to come forward.
'It may be you live near a baby, and their mother, who have unexpectedly not been seen for a number of days.'
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