UPDATE @ 4:57pm
By: The Associated Press
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Police say they've stopped searching for the remains of a Jersey City baby thrown out in a hospital's trash.

Police have been looking for the body of Bashere Moyd Jr. since Jan. 2, when a funeral home worker who went to pick it up at Christ Hospital in Jersey City was told that it was missing.

Police say the body was thrown away with the hospital's trash sometime between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2 and may have been hauled by train to near Ashland, Ky.

No evidence of criminal wrongdoing was found by police.

Jersey City police chief Thomas Comey says the search was called off because it was "a Herculean undertaking" with little chance of finding the tiny body.

Hospital officials say the baby was delivered stillborn on Dec. 21. The mother initially said the child was born alive.

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The contracted train hauls trash from New Jersey to the Big Run Landfill in Boyd County.

Police say a car on the train may hold the remains of a newborn baby's body that was lost at a New Jersey hospital.

The baby's mother fears a possible medical cover-up.

Kentucky State Police tell us any search is on hold while New Jersey officials consider possible criminal charges against the hospital or an employee.

There is also a concern that the corpse was incinerated on the way to Kentucky

Update at 6 p.m. Wednesday
BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A Boyd County landfill is now the focus of a search for a missing newborn baby's body.

There's a fear, however, that the body already has been incinerated.

Kentucky State Police investigators said a train that hauls trash from the East Coast is being held in a CSX rail yard in Greenup County. Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, a heartbroken mother fears a possible hospital cover-up.

Police said if the newborn's body was discarded with the New Jersey trash, it very well may end up at the Big Run Landfill in Coalton.
New Jersey police said the stillborn body of Bashere Moyd Jr. turned up missing last week from Christ Hospital in Jersey City.

The baby's mother said the child was born alive and died 20 minutes later.

New Jersey police and Kentucky State Police are working together. Both agencies believe the baby's body was put in the trash, but there has been no comment on that from the hospital.

Kentucky State Police said detectives have verified that it's the right trash train, but, they say there were some stops along the way that included some burning.

"New Jersey tells us there were some stops for incineration," Kentucky State Police Lt. J.P. Stephens said. "That means there's a possibility the body may not be in this train car."

Stephens said the trash train travels through Pennsylvania, Cleveland and Buffalo on its way to its final destination at Big Run Landfill.

The hospital said the baby's stillborn body was placed in the morgue on Dec. 21, but when funeral home workers came to pick up the body on Jan. 2 it was gone.

On Thursday, police will begin a bag-by-bag examination at the landfill that may involve a haz-mat crew, police from two states and perhaps landfill workers.

The baby's mother has a lawyer, who said the baby's body was tagged with identity and medical information and then mysteriously lost. That's part of what has generated the concern of a possible medical cover-up and lawsuit because New Jersey law doesn't consider a stillborn a person.

We will keep you updated on this developing story.

Original story
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (WSAZ) -- A family in New Jersey is dealing with the devastating loss of their baby in a case that is hitting us close to home.

Kalynn Moore delivered her baby boy, Bashir, on Dec. 21, 2008.

Hospital officials said the baby was stillborn, but the family insists he was born alive.

Now, the hospital says it can’t find the baby’s remains, and he may have been tossed out with the trash.

Police are searching trash dumps in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ashland, Ky., to try to find the baby’s body.

New Jersey police say they’re interested in searching the Big Run Landfill in Boyd County because of a measure approved back in 2007. That measure expanded the landfill, allowing trash from New Jersey to come in on a rail line.