ABU DHABI // The parents of four babies who were found abandoned at different locations around Sharjah have been arrested.
In the first case, a woman was admitted to hospital showing signs of having recently given birth. Comparing blood samples of the woman and one of the abandoned children proved she was the mother. Confronted with the evidence, she confessed to being the parent and giving birth out of wedlock, reported Al Ittihad, the Arabic language sister paper of The National.
The second case involved a baby who was left in the reception area of a private hospital. The hospital’s surveillance cameras caught a man leaving the baby on a chair before running away.
He was identified and later arrested at an apartment along with the child’s mother. Under interrogation they confessed to being the parents and that the baby had been born out of wedlock.
Sharjah Police also discovered two babies abandoned in boxes, one was left at a mosque and another near a private home. Investigating teams arrested two Asian women who were suffering the after-effects of pregnancy.
Both confessed to having given birth outside of marriage and abandoning their babies.
All of the cases have been passed to prosecutors.
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