A Connecticut woman who allegedly abandoned an 8-month-old girl in a dumpster after stabbing the tot’s mom has pleaded not guilty, according to reports.

Andiana Velez, 24, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of second-degree assault, risk of injury to a child and first-degree reckless endangerment for the Oct. 12 incident in New Haven, the New Haven Register reported.

Police suspect Velez, of Hamden, was the child’s babysitter and stabbed her 21-year-old mother during an argument, before leaving the woman’s daughter in the dumpster, WTIC reported.

A resident at the Presidential Gardens apartment complex found the shivering infant crying inside the bin as he took out his trash, according to the newspaper.

The child had burns on her hands, and was released from a hospital the following week. Investigators have yet to determine how the girl’s hands were burned, the Register reported.

Velez’s attorney, who was appointed by a judge during Tuesday’s hearing, entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. She participated in the hearing via video link from behind bars, the newspaper reported.

Velez, who remains held on $500,000 bail, is due back in court on Nov. 20. Attorney Paul Carty said he had yet to speak to her following the hearing.

“I don’t have the police report yet,” Carty told the Register. “I know only what I saw on TV and read in the newspaper … I’m probably as perplexed as anybody else about this case.”

The child’s mother, who survived the alleged stabbing, did not attend Tuesday’s hearing, the newspaper reported.