Baby Elsa is now “safe and well” as the search for her mother continues, Chief Superintendent Simon Crick said on Friday.
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Metropolitan police searching for mother of child left in sub-zero temperatures at London intersection
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Comments have been “mostly” kind, but police are asking the public to avoid “unhelpful” comments about the incident.
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The child, named Baby Elsa, was found in a reusable bag on January 18 and hospitalized.
Police in London are asking the public to avoid “unhelpful” comments after a newborn baby was found alive in a shopping bag in sub-zero temperatures more than a week ago.
The girl was found wrapped in a towel inside a bag left at the intersection of Greenway and High Street South on Jan. 18, according to a previous news release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
That Thursday, around 9:15pm local time, a member of the public was walking his dog when he discovered the newborn, now called Baby Elsa, “in a shopping bag.” According to Reuters and Sky News, the temperature in London was around minus 3 degrees Celsius (26.6 degrees Fahrenheit) when the baby was discovered.
Online comments about the incident have been “incredibly kind, supportive and understanding,” Chief Superintendent Simon Crick said in a release issued Friday. However, police are unhappy with the behavior of some users on social media.
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Mr Click said a “small number of abusive and negative comments” had been shared online, which the chief justice considered “unnecessary and unhelpful” as the search for answers continued.
“We are all viewing this case from a privileged position in that we have no idea what Baby Elsa’s mother is going through,” the police chief explained in a news release Friday.
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“Please consider what you post, and even the possibility that she will read it, and help us with our primary objective of locating her to ensure she is safe,” he said. added.
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Crick said baby Elsa is now “safe and well” as the search for her mother continues. Authorities believe it is “very likely” that the child was born as a result of a “hidden pregnancy.”
According to the police chief, the girl was hospitalized after she was discovered, but has now been discharged. In the meantime, he added, local authorities “continue to ensure that she is properly cared for and cared for.”
In a news release Friday, police said a woman entered the Greenway from High Street South around 8:45 p.m. local time, about 30 minutes before the baby was found inside a reusable bag. revealed that he had been seen.
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Mr Crick said police had “identified a woman we would like to speak with and a witness who may have seen her”.
“We believe the woman is black and was wearing a large dark coat with a light colored scarf or hood around her neck and was carrying a backpack,” he said. She is believed to have “left the Greenway in a certain direction.” [of] Fabian street. ”
Police are also interested in speaking to potential witnesses who were “wearing dark-colored hooded coats” and carrying backpacks, one of which had a reflective strip on the back. Ta. The police chief said the man exited the greenway around 9:10 p.m.
Anyone with information about the woman in question or any witnesses is asked to contact police “immediately”. Anyone with information about the child’s mother is asked to call 999 ref CAD 6876/18 Jan.
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