Indonesian maid arrested over abandoned baby
Published on Nov 24, 2013
A 30-year-old Indonesian maid was arrested by the police last night in connection with an abandoned newborn baby that she had apparently found outside her employer's home off Sixth Avenue. -- ST FILE PHOTO: MELISSA LIN
By Melissa Lin
A 30-year-old Indonesian maid was arrested by the police last night in connection with an abandoned newborn baby that she had apparently found outside her employer's home.
The baby girl, who still had her umbilical cord attached, was left outside a terraced house near Sixth Avenue last Friday night, according to the home owner, who declined to give her name.
The middle-aged woman told The Sunday Times yesterday morning that her maid found the baby when she was taking out the garbage.
The maid then took the baby into the house and notified the woman's husband, who called the police. "I don't know why the baby was abandoned there," the woman said.
