Police in Polk County (west Florida) are searching for a woman who gave birth this weekend and abandoned her newborn daughter in a forest, who was found an hour after the birth by a woman who believed That his cries were the meow-meow of cats. a fight.
The woman persuaded her husband to go to the forest to see what was happening and When the girl was located, she notified the Polk Sheriff’s Office and agents went to the scene to take the child to a hospital. According to a statement by the police, where it was found she was healthy and strong.
According to the police, the girl, weighing over 2.7 kg, was found wrapped in a blanket, the umbilical cord had been cut and surrounded by the remains of her mother’s placenta. According to a report in the Miami Herald newspaper, he is believed to be of “Hispanic ancestry”.
“It was by the grace of God that when we did we found the abandoned girl, before exposure to the cold or any animal could do her any harm. She was left in an extremely weak condition, but she was a strong The girl is there and seems to be doing great.” Sheriff Grady Judd said.
She was left in an extremely weakened state, but she is a strong girl and looks like she is doing great.
Agents went door-to-door in the area and used drones and bloodhounds to try to locate the mother.But they failed, and now they solicit information from the population to help them find it.
The girl was found last Saturday in a wooded area near mobile homes in Mulberry, about 40 kilometers from downtown Tampa. The temperature that day was an unusually low 11 °C for the region.
Sheriff Grad said that The woman who found the child is a “heroine” who found and saved him, and insisted that she also prevented the mother from being charged with murder.
Florida has a safe haven law that allows parents to leave newborns at a fire station or medical center for up to one week after birth.
