Mother Gets Jail Sentence for Abandoning Baby and Fleeing Country
- Publish date: Thursday، 22 December 2022 Reading time: 1 min read | Last update: Saturday، 21 December 2024
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A mother was sentenced to two months in prison for abandoning her newborn daughter in the hospital and fleeing to her home country.
According to the police, the woman gave birth to a baby girl who was transferred to the intensive care unit for premature babies.
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Although the baby remained in the ICU due to her poor health condition, the mother was authorized to leave the hospital.
Three months after the mother was discharged, she returned to the hospital again but left without taking her child. The police launched a search for the mother, as she was endangering her daughter's safety. It was later discovered that she had fled the country.
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