The State - News from July 24, 1988

Temporary custody of a baby girl abandoned in a jetliner restroom by her mother has been awarded to the infant’s paternal grandparents. “This could be the beginning of a happy ending,� said an attorney for the girl’s father, Louis LoCasto, 26. Belmont Juvenile Court Commissioner Patricia Bresee, in giving temporary custody to the grandparents, who live on Staten Island, N.Y., said her decision was based on a finding that the girl might be in “substantial danger of physical harm� if turned over to her mother, Christina LoCasto, 24. The furor over the baby, Alyssa, began July 13, when she was found under a sink on a United Airlines jet shortly after it arrived at San Francisco International Airport from Newark, N.J. Christina LoCasto later turned herself in to San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies, pleaded innocent to felony child endangerment and is free on bail. The brown-haired, blue-eyed girl will remain in a foster home until Aug. 5.