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CALGARY — A police officer says a mother accused of leaving her newborn baby inside a garbage bag in a Dumpster was watching from the steps of her apartment as the child was saved by authorities.

Const. David Hsu was called in to look for witnesses after the baby was found abandoned in the Calgary trash bin in October 2010.

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He testified Tuesday that he thought Meredith Borowiec was just an “onlooker” when he saw her sitting, barefoot, wearing pyjama bottoms and with a blanket wrapped around her waist.

Hsu said Borowiec told him she was at home ill that day but had been told by her boyfriend that a baby had been found in the Dumpster.

When he saw blood on the blanket by the woman’s leg and on her coat sleeve, Hsu became suspicious that she was the child’s mother.

“I thought she was a suspect,” said Hsu. “The fact she had blood on her leg and her sleeve was suspicious.”

Borowiec, 31, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of two of her newborn children in 2008 and 2009 and before the infant was rescued from the garbage in 2010.