A newborn boy survived and was listed as stable Monday night after having been tossed into a trash can in South Carolina, police said. 
 
 The boy's mom, identified as Sharon Lenise Ferguson, 28, was charged with attempted murder and child abandonment. She was arrested after the boy was found about 4:30 p.m. ET wrapped in a pink blanket and a plastic grocery bag in a trash can in the family's backyard in Greenville, in the northwest part of the state. 
 
 Greenville police said the boy was near death when he was found by a neighbor who had followed a trail of blood. Emergency crews began treating him at the scene. By Monday night, he was reported to be stable. 
 
 Sharon Lenise Ferguson of Greenville, S.C., was charged with attempted murder and child endangerment Monday after a baby was found in a trash can in the family's back yard. Greenville County, S.C., Jail 
 
 Ferguson remained in the Greenville County jail Monday night on $125,000 cash bond. 
 
 — M. Alex Johnson ||||| The newborn baby found in a trash can last month has been released from the hospital and is now in foster care, according to a Department of Social Services official. 
 
 The baby was found in a trash can on Chaney Street in the Nicholtown community on April 21. 
 
 The baby's mother, Sharon Ferguson, is charged with attempted murder and unlawful neglect of a child. 
 
 Greenville police spokesman Johnathan Bragg said the owner of the rental home was doing maintenance when he noticed blood outside the trash can. When he looked inside, he saw the infant. 
 
 Neighbor Ouida Neasley said, "I was upset. I saw the baby after they had pulled it out of the trash can and the fire department got here and I saw that the baby was moving." 
 
 According to police warrants, Ferguson told investigators that on or about April 21 she gave birth to the baby, and placed him in a plastic grocery bag and wrapped him in a pink blanket. She then put the child into a trash can in the backyard and willfully abandoned him. 
 
 Ferguson was found walking near the intersection of Laurens and Haviland roads in Greenville Monday afternoon. She was taken into custody and booked. A judge said she set her bond at $125,000. 
 
 Traci Fant, a family spokesperson, said Ferguson has a "diagnosed mental illness" and was homeless, and it’s a “very sad situation.” 
 
 Fant said Ferguson’s family did not know she was pregnant and they do not believe that she knew she was or knew what to do to get help. 
 
 Fant plans to ask the solicitor to downgrade the attempted murder charge, and cited the case of a woman who abandoned a baby at the BI-LO Center three years ago who was not charged with attempted murder. 
 
 Neighbors told WYFF News 4 that Ferguson was known for unusual behavior, but they said they don't believe she would intentionally harm anyone. 
 
 Neighbors said Ferguson didn't look pregnant and they had no idea she was. Apparently, Ferguson had been wearing the same baggy jacket and sweat pants for months.
– A newborn baby boy is lucky to be alive this morning after being found yesterday near death in a garbage can in Greenville, SC. He was put there, police say, by his mother, who has since been charged with attempted murder and child abandonment. NBC News reports he was found in a can in the backyard of the home occupied by Sharon Lenise Ferguson, 28, and her family. The home is a rental, and the owner happened to be there doing maintenance work—and spotted a trail of blood. He looked inside the can around 4:30pm and saw the infant among bloody towels. Ferguson told police she had placed the child in a plastic grocery bag and wrapped him in a pink blanket after giving birth "on or about April 21," reports WYFF. He was listed in stable condition last night; Ferguson spent the night in Greenville County jail. Her bond has been set at $125,000. FOX Carolina points out that the state's safe haven law protects parents who leave a child up to 30 days old at a hospital, police or fire station, or place of worship.