Authorities have arrested the mother of the infant who was found on Wednesday evening (03/09) in a park near the Acropolis inside a shopping cart from a supermarket.
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The woman went to the Kaminia Police Station and claimed that a stranger snatched her child after she had given the baby to him while shopping at a supermarket on Miaouli coast. Subsequently, she was arrested by the Minor Protection Unit for endangering a minor.
The infant was discovered by a 54-year-old woman in a park on Kallirrois street, who immediately notified the authorities. The baby was transferred to Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital on the prosecutor’s orders.
Authorities investigating possible connection to begging ring
Police investigations are ongoing to determine exactly what happened. In fact, one of the possibilities being examined is a connection to a begging ring.
The case is reminiscent of the incident with the baby found in a black bag next to a garbage bin in Alimos, when security camera footage from a supermarket in Omonia showed a man holding the child.
