Abandoned baby dies in GMC

Abandoned baby dies in GMC
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PANAJI: A baby who was recently found wrapped in a gunny bag, abandoned by her parents at Old Goa, expired at Goa Medical College and hospital,
Bambolim, on early Thursday morning. She was admitted to the hospital on late Wednesday evening.

Incidentally, even as the police had booked a woman for abandoning the child and sent the minor to Apna Ghar, they failed to get a DNA test of the two, to establish if the woman is really the child's mother or she had falsely admitted to be the child's mother.

It may be recalled that some persons had found a two-day-old baby in a gunny bag on August 16. They had opened the bag, which was lying near a garage on hearing a child's cry. Later, the Old Goa police claimed that they had traced the mother to a 35-year-old woman from Karnataka who had come to Goa in search of a job and arrested her for abandoning the new born. She is now lodged at Aguada jail. Meanwhile, the police have sent a letter to the "mother" informing her about her daughter's death. The postmortem will be conducted on Friday in the mother's presence, said police sources.

25 September 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition