On January 10, the news of the discovery of a three-month-old baby abandoned in a cardboard box in the municipality of La Guardia, in boliviawent around the world and dismayed thousands of people.
The little boy was found with a note that said, “Sir, I can’t support my baby because I work as a maid. However, in recent hours more details of this heartbreaking case have been revealed.
The newborn was left inside an abandoned house and his strong crying It was what alerted the residents of the sector, who found the little boy and notified the authorities.
Doris Leaños, director of the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents of La Guardia, explained that behind this event is the drama of a 14-year-old girl who was abused sexually by her father during a trip and, moreover, forced by him to abandon the baby.
“The incident would have occurred on a trip they made to Sucre. The aggressor was drunk at the time of the incident. Later, they return, even the father proceeds to apologize to the daughter,” said Leaños.
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What the aggressor in this case did not imagine is that his daughter had been pregnant and, after finding out, she forced her daughter to abort with tablets and drinks, however, the pregnancy progressed and the baby was born on December 31 at the Plan 3,000 Municipal Hospital.
“Over time she begins to feel the symptoms of a pregnant woman such as nausea, vomiting. He himself proceeded to give her tablets, however, she does not give the abortion. They go to a medical check-up and it turns out that the baby was in perfect health,” said the director of the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents.
The newborn was hospitalized for several days and, on January 8, when he was discharged, the girl and her father picked him up, however, they abandoned him hours later in a cardboard box with some diapers and milk.
Leaños also commented that “once the baby was born, they left the hospital, they went from one accommodation to another accommodation seeing what to do with the baby, then they decide to abandon it and that is how they decide to leave it at kilometer 9, where the baby was found.”
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When the baby was found he was infected with covid-19but the little one also survived this obstacle and is currently in a foster home for minors.
On the other hand, according to the Bolivian newspaper ‘Opinion’, the man was arrested and in the last few hours he pleaded guilty, for which he was sent to the jail of Palmasola where he must serve a sentence of 25 years in prison.
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