11 April 2003
Police in Pinsk arrest woman on suspicion of having left newborn to die
The police in Pinsk, Brest region, on April 9 arrested a woman on suspicion of having left her newborn girl to die.
The newborn's dead body was found by a cleaning woman in a rest room in the AlVeNa insurance company's Pinsk office on Tuesday evening. An AlVeNa employee contacted the police immediately. The baby's mother, a 25-year-old resident of Nobel in Ukraine's Rivne province, was arrested the following day.
As Pinsk police chief Aleksandr Lepinsky told BelaPAN, the young lady had come to the city to stay at her sister's. She gave birth to the baby there and later went to the AlVeNa office to ditch her. Mr. Lepinsky said that the cause of the girl's death was as yet unclear.
However, the girl may have been alive when she was abandoned in the rest room, because the police charged her mother with the knowing abandonment of a person in a condition that presents a threat to his or her health or life.
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