A newborn baby girl who was found dead inside a garbage can outside an Ohio sorority house last week was born alive and then suffocated, according to the coroner. A preliminary ruling from the Muskingum County coroner on Monday said the baby found at Muskingum University campus was nearly full term when she was born, NBC4 reported. The child's mother is a student at the small school in New Concord, authorities said last week, but they have refused to release her name. Scroll down for video . Found: A newborn girl was found inside the trash outside the Delta Gamma Theta sorority house, pictured, at Muskingum University last Wednesday. It has now emerged the baby was alive when she was born . They interviewed her after the child's body was found on Wednesday night outside the Delta Gamma Theta sorority house on Lakeside Drive. No charges have been filed. A University police officer called the sheriff’s office at around 9pm on Wednesday after he reported seeing a dead newborn outside the building. The body was inside a plastic bag in the garbage can, according to reports. It's the second time a baby has died of asphyxiation at the school, The Times Reporter noted. Jennifer Bryant, then 22, was arrested on involuntary manslaughter and other charges in 2002 after she gave birth to a baby boy in her campus apartment and then put him in the trash. He later died. Bryant, who was a student at the school, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in to three years in prison in 2003, but she was released after seven months. Tragic: It is the second time an abandoned baby has died at the university campus in eastern Ohio. In 2002, the body of a baby boy was found in a dumpster and his mother served seven months in prison . Ohio has a Safe Haven Law that's been in place since 2001 allowing mothers of newborns to anonymously leave their child at a hospital or fire station. The newborn is then placed with child services and hopefully then put in a loving home. As long as the newborn shows no sign of abuse or neglect then the mother does not face any legal charges. Muskingum University, which is about 70 miles east of Columbus, has 3,000 students. See below for video .
The body of a baby girl was found inside a plastic bag in a trash can outside the Delta Gamma Theta at Muskingum University last week . An autopsy has now revealed that the baby was born alive and was nearly full term but died from asphyxiation . The child's mother, whose name has not been released, has spoken with police but has not been charged .