Newborn Girl Rescued From Sicily Dumpster
Police rescued an hours-old baby from a construction dump Friday after the mother confessed to abandoning the child, news reports said.
State TV showed the nearly 6-pound girl, dubbed Natalina, or “Little Christmas,” sleeping peacefully in a hospital incubator after her rescue.
A doctor in the emergency room of a Palermo hospital, treating a woman who had come in bleeding, suspected that the patient had just given birth. The doctor called police, who questioned the unmarried woman of 20, ANSA said.
She first said she had given birth in her bathroom and that the infant had been washed down the toilet but eventually admitted where she had left the baby, wrapped in a blanket and in a plastic bag.
The woman and one of her brothers were arrested on charges of attempted murder, ANSA said. Police said they had received many calls from people wanting to adopt the baby.
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