Police release photo of site where baby was abandoned

POLICE have released photos of the woman’s pyjamas the newborn girl was wrapped in when she was discovered dead from cold and hunger under an olive tree on Monday.

The police hope the photos might shed some light on the identity of the newborn mother’s whom they have been looking for all week.

The baby was discovered in the Larnaca suburb of Aradippou on Monday morning.

State pathologist Eleni Antoniou who did the post-mortem said that the baby was born by natural labour probably on Sunday night and was still connected to the placenta when found.

“She was probably born at home since I think it’s unlikely that the woman managed to get to a spot, removed from residential areas, in order to give birth in the cold alone,” Antoniou said.

Antoniou said that she thought the mother must have gotten help from someone as “a woman who has just given birth would in all likelihood be unable to drive or walk to the middle of a field without outside help,” Antoniou said.  

“If this is right, then it could be that the mother was driven to Aradippou from much further out, such as from Nicosia,” Antoniou said.

The newborn died from “starvation and climatic conditions – the cold,” Antoniou said.

The police have still made no headway on the mother’s identity.

Police chief Michalis Papageorgiou said yesterday that they had not been able to match the baby’s genetic material to anyone else’s on their records.

Papageorgiou however said they were “optimistic” because they were having a “constant flow” of information from the public regarding the case.

Anyone who has any useful information is asked to get in touch with the police.

 

 

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