Abandoned Baby in Stable Condition
A newborn girl found abandoned Tuesday afternoon near the Santa Ana Police Department was hospitalized in stable condition, police said as they searched for the child’s mother.
Police Lt. Robert Helton said two boys walking through the parking lot of a small office building on West Civic Center Drive heard the baby crying.
“They immediately went to their parents, who found the baby” in some ivy near a block wall, Helton said. “She couldn’t have been more than 2 hours old.”
The child was wrapped in a blue towel inside a plastic grocery bag, he said.
The baby was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Orange.
The child’s mother could face charges of child abandonment, Helton said.
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