Police found the woman who abandoned her baby in a bag in Bucharest

According to sources close to the investigation, the woman is 27 years old, lives in the area where the abandoned child was found and has three more children.

The woman was taken to the INML for further investigation.

Following investigations carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court and the Murder Service of the Capital Police, a 27-year-old Bucharest woman was identified and found and taken away for questioning.

On the night of 12.22.2020, by calling 112, the General Directorate of Police of the Municipality of Bucharest was notified that in front of a block of flats in sector 3, in a bag, there was a newborn. Police officers from Section 13, as well as a first aid team, rushed to the scene. The boy was taken to the hospital for medical attention.
The case was taken up by the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court and the Murder Service of the Capital Police to identify the mother, as well as to establish the factual and legal situation “, the police announced in a statement.

The baby, born prematurely, was left in a bag on Tuesday night, in front of a block of flats in Sector 3 in Bucharest, when it was 3 degrees outside.

The baby was found nearly frozen by a woman and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Doctors say his story is a Christmas miracle and named him Cristian Ștefan.

When he got to the hospital, the baby was so frozen that doctors couldn’t even take his temperature. They realized that he was born prematurely.

Cătălin Cîrstoveanu, Head of the ATI Neonatology department at Marie Curie Hospital: “He is premature, around 33 weeks. His situation was very critical. Hypothermia, a lower degree means a very high risk of death, only one degree lower and he had an immeasurable temperature.

The baby, who was brought to the hospital in a cotton bag, in a diaper and wrapped only in a T-shirt, miraculously recovered in just a few hours. Doctors watch him.