You must read this story… It will shock you to the core! An incredible discovery You would never have expected this terrible discovery. On the night of Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 March, around 4:30 a.m., the residents of a building in Saint-Étienne, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, heard cries that were very reminiscent of a baby’s crying. Traces of blood When they came out of their apartments, initially following the cries, they were shocked to see traces of blood. They followed these traces down to the corridor leading to the cellars and, more precisely, to the building’s garbage room. A baby in a storage room On site, they came across… a newborn baby, all alone in this small storage room. The cries and the presence of blood, which indicated that the child had been born very recently, immediately alerted the emergency services.
Rescue services alerted The Loire Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) then sent a team from the Samu de la Loire rescue service to the scene, as Le Progrès reports. Rapid care One of the doctors quickly attended to the baby, who still had the umbilical cord and was suffering from hypothermia. It was nevertheless in good health and its life was not in danger, according to France Bleu. An investigation was launched The baby was taken to the Saint-Étienne University Hospital, where it remained on Sunday, March 24. The police opened an investigation for “attempted murder” and also went to the scene.
Police statements “If no one had intervened as quickly as they did, the baby might not have survived,” the authorities explained. A repressed pregnancy According to the initial findings of the investigation, the child’s mother, a 20-year-old woman who also lives in this building in Saint-Étienne, had a repressed pregnancy. She is said to have given birth alone in her bathroom before leaving the newborn in the garbage room. The work of the police The police followed the traces of blood in the common areas of the building, from the garbage room to her apartment, and knocked on the door before the mother, who was at home, opened it.
The mother is also being treated in hospital She was also hospitalized, at the city’s North Hospital. She was taken into police custody and will be questioned by investigators as soon as her health allows. On the night of Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 March, a newborn was found in the garbage room of a residential building in Saint-Étienne (Loire). It was neighbors who made this shocking discovery after hearing the crying of a baby.