The parents of the 1-year-old girl thrown three floors down a trash compactor chute -- allegedly by her own uncle -- in their Staten Island apartment building scrambled to rescue her as they heard her cries, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.

Lisa Hernandez, 34, died after she was removed from a garbage chute at the Silver Lake Apartments where she lived on Jan. 1, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Maura Grunlund)