A baby was found covered in faeces and severely traumatised trapped in the same room as her mum who died five days earlier from a drug overdose, according to court documents.
Little Lyric Laboy was 15-months-old when she was found huddled under a bed just a few feet away from the dead body of her mum, Shelbi Westlake, 26, at the East River Family Center in Manhattan, New York.
The infant was "covered in human faeces", suffering with severe dehydration and needed urgent hospital treatment when she was finally rescued, the New York Post reports.
