Abandoned Blacktown baby: Mum found
Police track down mother who abandoned baby: woman would have dumped hour-old baby in backyard in suburbs
- Baby was found abandoned in the backyard
- The police searched for mother for two weeks
- They think they’ve finally found the woman
The mother of a newborn baby dumped in a western Sydney backyard has finally been found, police say.
A woman came forward this week and is believed to be the baby’s mother, but police are still waiting for DNA tests to confirm.
The naked baby girl – barely an hour old – was discovered alone on a wicker chair next to a children’s play set in a Blacktown residence on Friday, April 21.
She was covered in birth fluid with the umbilical cord still attached to her as she lay on a pillow.
The baby has spent the past two weeks in Blacktown Hospital recovering after becoming unwell, but will soon go to foster care.
The naked baby girl – barely an hour old – was discovered alone on a wicker chair next to a children’s playset in a Blacktown residence on Friday, April 21 (pictured, the playset with the wicker chair in the background)
Detective Inspector Jason Pietruszka said police have no leads on who the baby’s mother is, but are pressing for answers (stock image)
Detective Jason Pietruszka said two weeks ago that police had no leads on who the baby’s mother is.
“We want to know what happened, the backstory behind it,” he said The Saturday Telegraph.
“It’s certainly very sad, tragic, but that’s why we’re police officers, to find the truth so we can help.
“We don’t have answers at this time and it’s frustrating, but we’re calling on the grassroots for people in this proud community to come forward.”
He urged residents in the area to report anything unusual they saw where someone looked like they were in trouble or behaved unusually.
Inspector Pietruszka said earlier that if the mother does not report, the baby will be available for adoption.
The baby was covered in birth fluid with the umbilical cord still attached as she lay on a pillow near a children’s playground (pictured)
Ann Carlos, who lives in the home where the baby was found, said her sister Lara discovered the baby when she went to hang the laundry on the clothesline.
The family wrapped the chilly newborn in a towel before calling triple-0 as paramedics instructed them over the phone on how to clamp the umbilical cord.
‘I couldn’t find anything in the kitchen so I grabbed a shoelace and then used it [paramedics] explained to me how to do it,’ said Mrs. Carlos The Daily Telegraph.
“We knew she was born very recently, just hours before, because she still had the white stuff [vernix] on her head.’
She said she thought the newborn had been cleaned before being dumped in their backyard because there wasn’t much blood on her.
A police statement said: ‘Investigations into identifying the parents of a baby who was abandoned in western Sydney last month are ongoing.
Detectives from Blacktown Police Area Command have conducted extensive investigations since the newborn girl was found in the backyard of a house on Girra Road in Blacktown on Friday, April 21, 2023.
“As those investigations are ongoing, we cannot provide any further information about the investigation, including the various lines of investigation that are being conducted.”