Woman Held in Placing of Baby in Trash : Arrest: Newborn’s body was found in a bag with her umbilical cord still attached at a garbage transfer station in Irvine.

A 26-year-old woman was arrested Friday in connection with a dead baby who was found in a trash transfer station in Irvine last week, police said.

Veronica Aguiler Gonzalez of Costa Mesa was accused of giving birth to a full-term girl and placing her in a dumpster in Newport Beach, where garbage was picked up and taken to Irvine, Newport Beach Police Sgt. Andy Gonis said.

Workers found the corpse, with umbilical cord still attached, in a trash bag in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 6.

Officials did not know Friday if the child was stillborn or was alive when placed in the garbage, Gonis said.

Coroner’s officials estimated the girl had been born about 48 hours before her body was discovered. She was 19 1/2 inches long and weighed about seven pounds.

Gonzalez was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter at her apartment in the 2100 block of Placentia Avenue. She was being held Friday at the Orange County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail, Gonis said.

The self-employed housecleaner was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Newport Beach Municipal Court.

“We did receive, as a result of initial publicity and media coverage, three separate, independent sources of information that led us to identify her,” Gonis said, but he would not elaborate.

Gonis said the baby’s father is in Mexico.

“Any case is difficult,” Gonis said. “This one, involving an infant, has been especially difficult.”

A woman at the apartment on Placentia Avenue said she had been sharing the place with Gonzalez for several months, but did not want to be interviewed.