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ELMIRA, N.Y. — Two sisters who thought a dog was making noises near their neighbor’s bushes discovered something shocking: a filthy eight-month-old baby girl who survived three nights outside in a white plastic bag.

“Her legs were just dangling in the bag. Her head was in the bag. Her whole head was covered all the way down,” Kayla Seals told Elmira television station WENY.

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The baby was hospitalized in stable condition Wednesday and the 17-year-old mother, Harriette Hoyt, was in jail facing a charge of attempted murder.

Hoyt, who lives 20 miles from Elmira in Sayre, Pennsylvania, came here to visit a friend Saturday morning and left the infant in the bag under some bushes around noon, said Chemung County District Attorney Weeden Wetmore.

Police say interviews with neighborhood residents identified Hoyt as the baby’s mother. Her public defender wasn’t available for comment. Weeden said Hoyt had no prior criminal history.