Baby Found on Lake Released to Authorities
From Times Wire Reports
A Brazilian hospital released a 2-month-old girl to child protection authorities, two days after she was found in a plastic bag floating on a board in southeastern Brazil’s Pampulha Lake.
Scores of Brazilians had mobbed Odilon Behrens Municipal Hospital in Belo Horizonte hoping to adopt or at least catch a glimpse of the child, who had not been named.
Police charged the mother, 27-year-old Simone Cassiano da Silva, with attempted homicide. She denied setting the girl adrift.
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