Flashback: Children tell police they found ‘little people’ disposed of inside dumpster

Live Action News ^ | May 6, 2024 | Carole Novielli

[Morgana]

A group of young children playing near a trash dumpster in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, discovered what they later told police were “little people.” These were later identified by the Milwaukee Medical Examiner’s Office as the bodies of aborted babies.

“Forty years ago, Milwaukeeans were shaken by the news: Young children playing in a NW area of the city discovered in a garbage dumpster the mangled bodies of aborted babies,” Dan Zeidler, then executive director of Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Life (WCCL), told Live Action News.

Ziedler was granted permission to bury the aborted babies. He said, “With Milwaukee County’s permission, the cooperation of Milwaukee Archdiocesan Cemetery officials, and the help of concerned citizens, arrangements were made to bury these ‘little people’ in a dignified and prayerful manner in the Children’s Section of Milwaukee’s Holy Cross Cemetery.”

Driver improperly disposed of remains after she “became ill”

Monica Miller, founder of Citizens for a Pro-life Society wrote about the case in her book “Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars.”

The ‘little people” were “from the now closed Bread and Roses Clinic that used to be at Third (Street) and Wisconsin (Avenue),” Miller told the Catholic Herald in 2013. “A driver for Bay Shore Clinical Laboratories had picked up the fetal remains [at the abortion facility] and, while driving, became ill from the odor from the container she had just loaded into the van. As a result, the driver, who was later fired, dumped the aborted fetuses into a trash dumpster.”

News reports indicated that police were called to the location for “children throwing rocks.”

According to a Channel 12 Action News in Milwaukee report at that time, “The children said they didn’t have any rocks; they were throwing ‘little people.'”

One of the children who found the aborted babies, a seven-year-old girl, spoke to local media, telling them, “We found some legs, and the arms and the head.”

“The fetuses were all determined to be less than 20 weeks old, considered specimens,” reported TV6 News in Milwaukee.

While there were no laws governing fetal disposal in Wisconsin at that time, that changed a year later, when the state passed a fetal disposal ordinance. The Little People fetal disposal and abortion

Medical examination

Zeidler sent Live Action News a copy of the May 14, 1984, Milwaukee County Medical Examiner report which indicated that the initial call to police was to report “kids throwing stones from bridge.”

“Police were asked what they were throwing to which they answered, ‘little people,'” the report added, proving the accuracy of media reports. A day later (5/15/1984) “more fetuses had been discovered in the vicinity,” the report stated. News12 Milwaukee aborted fetuses called The Little People found in trash dumpster

All containers holding the remains were similar and also contained women’s names on the lids.

Police were notified by “Bay Shore Laboratory” that the remains came from the “Bread and Roses Medical Clinic,” which committed abortions, according to the document.

Although Bay Shore reported to law enforcement that it picked up 26 containers, the Medical Examiner’s report claimed that “Twenty-three [23] containers with lids were eventually transported to the County morgue.”

The Medical Examiner’s report indicated that among the more than two dozen containers of “little people,” at least 11 aborted children were examined. They were determined to be between the gestational ages of six to eight weeks.

The burial

On May 21, 1984, the ME’s report states that “Mr. Dan Zeidler made a formal request for authorization to bury the fetuses” and was granted permission. “We told them we were planning to do a very respectful burial,” Zeidler said.

The “little people” were eventually turned over to a funeral director in the area.

“They put the babies into these little caskets and delivered them to the gravesite,” Zeidler told Live Action News.

The remains of the “little people” were buried in the children’s section of Holy Cross Cemetery, which is maintained by the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. They can be identified with a grave marker that says, ‘Holy Innocents. Little People,’” according to the Catholic Herald.

Over 1,200 aborted babies are buried there, and they include babies found by Monica Miller who has published their images at her website, ImagesofAbortion.com.

The memorial

A brochure for the cemetery described the final resting place for these precious “Little People”:

The main stone, approximately six feet high, has an engraved image of Christ holding a young child and surrounded by other children. The inscription below states, “‘Let the children come to me. Do not hinder them. The Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.’ (Mt 19:14)”.

Alongside the main stone is a smaller stone with the following inscription, “This monument stands as a testimony to the Sanctity of Human Life. Among these graves of children are included preborn babies, victims of abortion. ‘The reason why the world does not know us, is that it did not know Him. We are God’s children now.’ (1 Jn 3:1)”

The gravesite of the “Little People” has its own marker… as does the grave of the 1,200 babies which reads, “1200 unborn children killed by ‘legalized’ abortion, February 9, 1988 to September 7, 1988 – Holy Innocents of God”. The stone marking the grave of the 1,200 children also has two other quotations, “A cry was heard in Rama, Rachel weeping for her children” (Mt 2:24), and “He will wipe every tear from their eyes” Rev. 21:4 (See photo middle of back page.)

“This mass gravesite has become a place of prayer for pro-life people, and also a place where post-abortion women come to mourn, to ask forgiveness, and to pray for healing,” it also reads.

The cemetery brochure also states, “And let us resolve to end this ‘legalized’ barbarism that is not only killing over a million children a year and gravely wounding their mothers and fathers, it is suffocating our society. May the breath and life of Christ renew us and convert our hearts to His plan for Life and Love!”

Ziedler wrote in an e-mail, “This month as we remember the 40th anniversary of the burial of the ‘Little People’, we ask you to remember these victims of abortion, and all victims of abortion, including the women who have been pressured and coerced into thinking killing their child was ‘the best choice under the circumstances’, like the women who come to the cemetery to mourn their ‘choice.”

As the brochure stated, “Let us not forget them!”

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[Morgana]

I was in Junior High when this happened and don't remember it.

Does anyone here remember?

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Ugh. Just last month, up here in the mountains, I drove by a newborn on the side of the road. Horrified, I found a place to turn around and approached the body slowly. Only upon getting feet away did I realize it was a lifelike doll. Sadly, there’s just been so much terrible news about such stories that I had no doubt it was a discarded baby. We get so much city riff raff dumping everything else up here!

[xoxox]

Wonder in what kind of neighborhood children play around dumpsters.

[reasonisfaith]

If there are dumpsters nearby, kids will play in them no matter what “kind” of neighborhood.

[reasonisfaith]

What kind were you thinking of?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Even a child without a degree in biology can tell what is human, no matter the age or size.

[MattMusson]

I agree. We always checked dumpsters to see what was inside as kids.

[clearcarbon]

"Flashback: Children tell police they found ‘little people’ disposed of inside dumpster"

I'm afraid a lost generation of America's potentially greatest contributing citizens rest forgotten in landfills around the country.

[fidelis]

Same here. Found some pretty cool stuff sometime.

[rlmorel]

Breaks my heart.

[rlmorel]

Heck, we used to. I remember we even regarded one as a “fort”. Remember those old storm drains that were a long open rectangle in curbs...and usually had a manhole cover on top of them? (I haven’t seen one in years, maybe they still have them?)

We found that we were small enough to squeeze through the rectangular opening, and there were iron rungs that probably went down six or eight feet, with a drain pipe going under the road to empty into the Philippine jungle on the other side.

We made that our “fort” for a while!

[Mermaid Girl]

That must have been horrifying. And while it turned out to be a discarded doll, I thank G-d that there are people like you in the world who are that vigilant.

[xenia]

Abortion is so obviously wrong and horrific, yet it continues with so many approving of it.

[rlmorel]

The ones I played around in were not the ones outside a mess hall, but were near the Seabees barracks on the base we were on, and were almost always used for construction material waste, so they were "relatively" clean. I don't think I would have gone into the ones near the mess hall, because those stunk to high heaven.

Funny. My house was right next to the Seabees barracks in Yokosuka, Japan, and there were always things to get into there. I recall they used to have these giant, cylindrical cages with a hatch in the side, and there was a big handle on the side to turn the cage like a spit...we were small enough to get inside the cage and grab on, shut and latch the hatch, and kids on each end would begin to spin it as fast as they could until the centrifugal force pinned you, then you ended up screaming for them to stop.

Sometimes they wouldn't stop and I recall screaming helplessly "Auuuugggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" as they grinned, then when you got out, you would stagger around.

I have no idea what those things were, but I think they might have been things from WWII they put soldiers or sailors wet laundry in to spin them dry before they hung them up to dry in the sun.

That was my guess, at least!

That was where I began my lifelong admiration of the Seabees. They had a giant statue that looked like this on the base at a base motel where we stayed for two weeks when we first got there, waiting for quarters to open up. We had six kids in our family, so we were all crammed into one motel room, while my parents had another room. Sleeping on cots, living out of those old, blue fiberboard suitcases.

We would go out on the dirty beach and play (we didn't care if it was dirty) and I recall there were long stretches of BIG anchor chain segments out there laid out parallel to each other hundreds of feet long, completely and totally rusted out. From large naval vessels. I remember seeing the gray navy ships out near the horizon, coming and going, slowly disappearing going "hull down" until all you saw was the tip of them mast.

Anyway, right in front of the motel there was a large statue that looked like this:

I was about ten at the time, and I thought that was the most awesome thing. It looked gigantic to me. (This isn't the same one, but you get the idea!)

In my professional life, I decided to adopt the Seabee Motto, because I so admired that outlook:

"Can Do!"

It has served me well. I take my hat off to them.

My apologies for getting off topic, but it brought back memories!

[Mean Daddy]

If its not human, why do they want the remains?

[Uversabound]

20+ years as a freeper I’ve never read anything so sad and so moving