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Death is a part of life, as the funeral cliche goes. You are
born, you live for a few minutes, then you become a dumpster baby. It
happens all the time. It really does, so much so that several states have
wrestled with legislation making it legal to anonymously abandon an
infant at hospitals and police stations, just to reduce the annual number
of infa~ticides. We don't hear about it too much unless we have a good,
news-friendly story to go along with the dead baby. In October of2000,
a teenage couple left their newborn baby in a portable toilet in Bear,
Delaware, but I would have never heard about it had I not been looking.
It's not that interesting a story anymore. It's like watching reruns. The
story is dead; throw it in with all the rest.

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Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson went their separate ways
following their prison sentences. Both prefer to leave the dumpster baby
case in the past. Brian moved to Florida, took a well-paying job at his
stepfather's video production company and married a young college
student. Amy started a business with her mother in Hackensack, New
Jersey, selling high-end, custom greeting cards. She makes cards for a
variety of occasions, including announcements of birth.

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