SANFORD, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Lee County woman is facing charges after a newborn was found in a trash can.

Lee County deputies responded on Sept. 13 after getting a 911 call from the Broadway area reporting a woman was lying in a yard.

Deputies arrived and found the woman and an infant inside a nearby trash can. They immediately began rendering lifesaving aid to both the woman and the newborn until emergency medical personnel arrived, the sheriff's office said Thursday.

Both the woman and the newborn were taken to a hospital.

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Investigators confirmed that the woman was the child's mother.

The woman, Mishayla Elisabeth Iles, 29, of Sanford, NC, was released from medical care on Wednesday and was then arrested and charged with co

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