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A toddler is in stable condition after being injured and left in an outdoor recycling bin early Thursday morning.

Robert Keno, 20, found the 19-month-old girl in a blue bin behind his house after he was chased out of a New Year’s party on Flora Avenue.

Four people followed him from the party, trying to steal his beer, he said. When they arrived at his house on Pritchard Avenue, they jumped him, he said, kicking him repeatedly in the head.

He ran into his home and emerged armed with a kitchen knife to scare them away, he said. His attackers were gone but he could hear a child crying. He followed the sound to the blue bin.

"When I opened the lid, she stopped crying and looked up at me with her arms raised, like she wanted me to pick her up," he said.

WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The recycling bin where the injured toddler was placed, in the 500 block of Pritchard Avenue.

Keno took the toddler inside and called the police.

A few minutes later, Keno’s house was swarming with about 20 emergency workers. The toddler was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Police said a 17-year-old male was arrested and turned over to members of the child-abuse unit. He cannot be named because he is a minor.

The accused had been partying at a nearby home when a fight took place, police said.

The accused allegedly took the child, who was not dressed for the cold weather, and ran from the home. After a short distance he fell and landed on top of the child, causing severe injuries, police said.

The accused apparently left the child in a recycling bin and returned to the home.

JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Robert (JD) Keno stands near the recycling bin where he found a 19-month-old girl early Thursday morning.

Environment Canada listed the temperature at -17 C Thursday morning, which felt like -25 C with the wind chill.

When the accused got back inside the house, he got into a fight with a 13 year-old female.

Neighbour Wendy Laird said she woke up to the sound of two girls shouting for help.

"They were running up and down the alley and along Selkirk Street," Laird said.

"It was just these blood-curdling screams for help, but no vehicles would stop," she said.

The 17-year-old has been charged with several offences including abandoning a child, assault, negligence causing bodily harm and possessing or consuming alcohol as a minor.

jesse.winter@freepress.mb.ca