March 1, 2021
BOSTON (WHDH) – A woman accused of leaving her newborn baby in a trash can in front of a pizzeria in Dorchester last week was ordered on bail of $ 100,000 on Monday.
Marie Merisier, 33, pleaded not guilty in Dorchester District Court to charges of attempted murder and reckless threat of a child.
According to prosecutors, Merisier went to a 73-year-old man’s house to do cleaning and cooking, while the man noticed she was pregnant before going to the bathroom for an hour. The man allegedly heard a baby crying before Merisier came out of the bathroom with a brown leather bag from which the man was crying.
The man allegedly asked Merisier if she needed an ambulance, and when she refused and left with the bag, he called 911, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said they had a video of Merisier dropping a double-knotted bag in the trash outside the pizzeria in Dorchester Avenue.
According to prosecutors, detectives allegedly tracked down Merisier through her phone to a house in Milton. Merisier apparently told detectives that she thinks the baby is not crying and is already dead, and that she ‘has no good for the baby anyway’.
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