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Sara Furtado, 24, confessed this Wednesday in court that she put her baby to bed in an eco-point in Lisbon, not to get rid of him, as the Public Ministry understands, but with the intention of finding him.
The defendant was moved to report her version of events to the judges and justified the act with “shame” and “fear” of having a child and living on the street. The panel of judges asked why she placed the baby in a closed ecopoint if she wanted to be found, to which Sara replied that “she believed it was.”
“I wanted to have the child when I found out I was pregnant, seven months pregnant, but I was hoping that things would improve so I could raise it,” said Sara Furtado. Asked what she did between the news of her pregnancy and the delivery to find better living conditions, the woman said she had done nothing.
Sara Furtado is charged with attempted murder. The Public Ministry believes that she gave birth in the early morning of November 3, 2019 and abandoned the baby in an ecopoint next to a nightclub after giving birth, in the Santa Apolónia area of Lisbon, where she slept in a tent with her couple. that he is not the father of the child and from whom he concealed the pregnancy.
That morning, the 22-year-old felt contractions and said she was going for a walk, refusing to be accompanied by her companion. She delivered the baby, cut the umbilical cord, put it in a bag and placed it in the ecopoint. She went back to the store and washed.
On day 5, she went for a walk with her companion near the place where she had left the baby and they were informed that a homeless person had found a baby in a container and had not taken it out. They both went to the boxes, but they didn’t hear anything. Sara saw the baby in the yellow container where she left it, but hurried her partner out. The baby was turned over to authorities at 5 p.m. when another homeless man saw him and he was taken alive to the hospital. The bag and the interior of the ecopoint allowed the baby to maintain body temperature, thus surviving.
Sara denied that the birth took place nearly two days before the baby was found, but the same day it was found. Her mother was in court but refused to testify. When leaving, asked by JN if she had come with any request to stay with her grandson, she said nothing.
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