Newborn baby tossed down garbage chute by teen mom survived for 12 hours in the trash heap

The newborn thrown down a trash chute by a teen Brooklyn mom survived for more than 12 hours in a pile of garbage, court documents show.

The mom, Laquasia Wright, 18, admitted tossing the baby boy from the eighth floor of the Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene Sunday, a criminal complaint says.

She was ordered held on $100,000 bail after being arraigned late Monday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on attempted murder charges.

A doctor at Brooklyn Hospital had told police the infant "was likely born 12 to 15 hours prior to the baby's arrival at the hospital," the complaint says.

Luckily, the trash compactor was jammed and the pile of garbage cushioned the baby's fall. A maintenance worker finally heard crying and found him.

Wright's neighbors told the Daily News the teen, who lived with her grandmother, hid the pregnancy.

"I wish she would have told us," said neighbor Valerie Prince, 43. "We would have helped her."