A newborn baby was found alive inside a shopping bag on a freezing night, sources have gone on to confirm.
The horrifying and concerning incident took place in London where witnesses were quick to alert the police about the matter after hearing the child crying from a distance.
They were shocked to realize that the baby was still alive, despite temperatures reaching record-breaking lows in the past few days.
Now, the hunt has begun in terms of searching for the mother who may have been forced to make the terrible decision or perhaps had no other choice in doing so.
The news has angered netizens who feel the matter should have been dealt with better. Others slammed the parents for even thinking that this was acceptable as there were plenty of ways to give the child away, in case they did not wish to keep him.
“It’s just so baffling how something like this has just arisen out of the blue. No child ever deserves to be treated like this. We are horrified”- another went on to add.
One woman who first saw the child says she was happily walking her dog when all of a sudden she laid eyes on the child inside the bag. At first, she thought she was hearing things but to horror, she was numb as to how heartless anyone could be to leave an infant in this dire state.
The baby has been handed over to social security and was immediately hospitalized after being rushed into immediate care.
She was a baby girl wrapped inside a towel and found at a local intersection at about 9 pm on Thursday.
“We are extremely concerned about the mother. We don’t know how else to say this. We hope we get some answers soon and can reunite the child to where they belong if the circumstances seem to be safe”- the cops have concluded.