In New York, a 7-month-old baby is abandoned; they leave it in the pharmacy

A 20-year-old woman entered a New York store on Friday afternoon with her seven-month-old baby, whom she abandoned minutes later after running out of the store, local media reported on Saturday.

The young woman arrived at a Brooklyn deli, as the small neighborhood supermarkets that also offer take-out are known, around 7:30 p.m. local time, transporting her baby in a cart, and asked to use the bathroom in the back of the room. deal.

Later, the woman ran away, leaving her son in the shop, after which the workers of the establishment called the forces of order.

The New York police assured that the child was taken to the hospital, where he is in good condition, and specified that they are investigating the events with the help of an agent who speaks Arabic, although they have not yet been able to find the mother.

The incident took place in the Bushwick neighborhood, near the busy intersection between Myrtle Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue, two days after a similar incident in Jersey City, in the neighboring state of New Jersey, in which a 14-year-old teenager delivered her newborn baby to a restaurant customer and then run away.

According to the images of a security chamber of commerce “El Patron”, the girl entered the restaurant this Wednesday visibly stunned and told the owner that she had found the abandoned baby and that she needed help.

It was then that one of the guests asked her permission to see if the child was okay, and she realized that it had been born shortly before.

“It happened to the baby immediately. I noticed that the baby still had traces of the birth in the hair and in the ears. It had not been cleaned very well,” explained the client, Alease Scott, who did not take long to realize that the young woman who Said she found it was actually her mother.

“I looked down and saw that she had dried blood on her leg and immediately I thought, ‘Oh my God, she’s the baby’s mother,'” Scott said. “But I was more focused on making sure the baby was breathing, so the moment I looked down at the baby, she was gone.”

After being treated by the emergency services, the newborn recovered, and the mother, who was located shortly after, is recovering in a hospital.

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