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Police looking for mother of Ashdod baby left in bag, baby is in good condition at Rehovot's Kaplan Hospital
"Hundreds of people called Ashdod city hall yesterday offering to adopt the baby found inside a plastic bag placed in the lobby of an apartment building. The infant, believed to be only about 2 hours old at the time of his discovery, is in good condition at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. Police are appealing to the mother to come forward and say she will not face criminal charges.
City welfare officials and representatives from the National Council for the Child are to meet today to discuss placing the baby with a foster family. For now, hospital nurses are caring for the infant in shifts. Advertisement
"He was hypothermic when he arrived, with an internal body temperature of slightly under 33 degrees Celsius," hospital pediatrician Dr. Orna Fliedel said yesterday. "He was breathing a little quickly but his condition stabilized quickly. He was placed in the preemies ward, where he was warmed and given fluids intravenously as well as antibiotics, since we don't know how his umbilical cord was cut," Fliedel said.
Late Monday afternoon Ephraim Janashvili noticed a plastic bag that had been left in the lobby of his apartment building. He picked it up, thinking that a tenant had neglected to throw out a bag of trash, and then noticed the baby's head inside the bag. "My wife called the police and they started asking questions, she told them there was no time for stories and to call for an ambulance," Janashvili related yesterday.
Ashdod police detectives interviewed all occupants of the building in search of the mother and have checked with area prenatal clinics, HMOs and hospitals. "We have asked for the public's help through all forms of media, requesting that anyone who knows of a woman who was expecting and feared unable to care for her infant to contact us," Ashdod police commander Chief Superintendent Danny Elgarat said yesterday. "We received many calls but the mother has not yet been located."
Elgarat said that the baby's mother meant for the infant to be found and did intend to hurt the baby. "We want to help her, first of all. Maybe she is in distress, maybe she is all alone somewhere, injured. She has nothing to fear from questioning by the police because in such cases our prime concern is the mother's welfare," Elgarat said.
Source: Roni Singer-Heruti and Yuval Azoulay. Haaretz.com (6 March 2008) [FullText]
City welfare officials and representatives from the National Council for the Child are to meet today to discuss placing the baby with a foster family. For now, hospital nurses are caring for the infant in shifts. Advertisement
"He was hypothermic when he arrived, with an internal body temperature of slightly under 33 degrees Celsius," hospital pediatrician Dr. Orna Fliedel said yesterday. "He was breathing a little quickly but his condition stabilized quickly. He was placed in the preemies ward, where he was warmed and given fluids intravenously as well as antibiotics, since we don't know how his umbilical cord was cut," Fliedel said.
Late Monday afternoon Ephraim Janashvili noticed a plastic bag that had been left in the lobby of his apartment building. He picked it up, thinking that a tenant had neglected to throw out a bag of trash, and then noticed the baby's head inside the bag. "My wife called the police and they started asking questions, she told them there was no time for stories and to call for an ambulance," Janashvili related yesterday.
Ashdod police detectives interviewed all occupants of the building in search of the mother and have checked with area prenatal clinics, HMOs and hospitals. "We have asked for the public's help through all forms of media, requesting that anyone who knows of a woman who was expecting and feared unable to care for her infant to contact us," Ashdod police commander Chief Superintendent Danny Elgarat said yesterday. "We received many calls but the mother has not yet been located."
Elgarat said that the baby's mother meant for the infant to be found and did intend to hurt the baby. "We want to help her, first of all. Maybe she is in distress, maybe she is all alone somewhere, injured. She has nothing to fear from questioning by the police because in such cases our prime concern is the mother's welfare," Elgarat said.
Source: Roni Singer-Heruti and Yuval Azoulay. Haaretz.com (6 March 2008) [FullText]
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