Yesterday, police apprehended a woman in connection to the newborn baby that was found in a toilet tank in a Tsuen Wan shopping centre on April 4.
A 37-year-old expatriate woman was arrested on suspicion of infanticide in Central yesterday and detained for further questioning, according to a police press release.
She is suspected of abandoning the baby boy after giving birth to him in an apartment in Tsuen Wan. Oriental Daily reports that the woman is a domestic worker from the Philippines.
The baby was found at around 7:45pm on April 4, in the ladies’ bathroom of Chan Kee Plaza in Sham Tseng, with his umbilical cord and placenta reportedly still attached.
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