A two-year-old girl was abandoned by her mother early Thursday morning near Entrecampos station in Lisbon. It took a warning from a man who noticed the baby carriage with no one in it and the intervention of the PSP, which resolved the case within four hours.
The girl, who suffered from a congenital malformation, was left there at 4:30 a.m., but it was not until 6:10 a.m. that someone noticed and alerted the PSP. The child was immediately taken to the Dona Estefania Hospital for observation. She was healthy but will remain in the hospital.
At 10:15 a.m., PSP officers intercepted a 25-year-old mother, originally from Sao Tome and Principe, at a nearby guesthouse. She was drunk and claimed her child had been stolen, but later changed her story, saying she had forgotten about her daughter. She was taken to the police station and identified. According to a PSP source, the child “will be taken away because the mother is not fit to support the child and he has no known relatives.” The mother will be charged with the crime of exposure and abandonment, punishable by five years in prison.
Author: Joao Carlos Rodriguez
Source: CM Jornal
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