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MOTHER ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED NEONATICIDE
Officers from the National Police have arrested a 26 year old Spanish woman in Alicante, on suspicion of murder, after she gave birth on Friday and tried to dispose of the newborn baby through the city drainage system.
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Officers from the National Police have arrested a 26 year old Spanish woman in Alicante, on suspicion of murder, after she gave birth on Friday and tried to dispose of the newborn baby through the city drainage system.
Officers we alerted to an incident at around 2 am on Sunday morning, when a neighbour alerted the emergency services of cries coming from the drains, which they thought may have been a trapped cat. As the police and fire crews arrived at the scene to assist in what they thought was an animal rescue, they quickly discovered that the cries were that of a baby.
They accessed the drains and found a newborn male baby, weighing just over 2 kilos, wrapped in bags, with a hole cut for air.
An emergency SAMU ambulance also attended and medics found that the child still had his umbilical cord attached, had suffered a radial fracture and other injuries, and was taken to the neonatal unit at the General Hospital of Alicante, in a serious, but stable condition.
Investigators then sought to try to identify the baby and discovered that a 26 year old pregnant woman, who lived nearby, had been admitted to hospital on the 21st of June, having apparently suffered a miscarriage at home.
The woman, who the officers located, was arrested and the reasons for that arrest explained, at which point she spontaneously acknowledged the facts, stating that she did not wish to have the baby, but she had no money for an abortion.
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