Heart-stopping moment an injured toddler is found inside a suitcase abandoned in the street as cops hunt parents
- A two-year-old boy was found in a suitcase abandoned on a street in the central Mexican city of Puebla
- The child had bruises on his face and was treated for hypothermia and malnutrition
- At least four children were abandoned in the state of Puebla in 2024
Authorities are looking for the parents of a two-year-old boy who was left in a suitcase in the city of Puebla in central Mexico.
The disturbing discovery occurred Tuesday morning when a woman walking through the La Loma neighborhood heard the screams of a child.
The woman approached the suitcase and found the toddler under the water.
While changing clothes, the officer noticed that he was showing signs that he had recently been beaten.
“He had visible injuries on his face,” officer Betsabé Zallas told Mega Noticias.
Puebla police officer Betsabé Zallas holds a two-year-old boy who was found abandoned Tuesday in a suitcase left on a sidewalk. The child had bruises on his face and was treated for hypothermia and malnutrition. The authorities are looking for these parents
A two-year-old boy was found Tuesday in a suitcase in La Loma’s Puebla neighborhood after a resident heard the child’s cries
Authorities in the central Mexican city of Puebla, capital of Puebla state, are searching for the parents of a two-year-old boy found in a suitcase on Tuesday. The toddler is the fourth child left on the streets of Puebla state this year
“It was also my job to protect the minor, keep him warm so he could (be taken) to a police cruiser to determine the minor’s diagnosis.”
Paramedics arrived on the scene and found him to be in good health and then rushed him to North General Hospital, where doctors diagnosed and treated him for hypothermia, malnutrition and numbness in his body, ABC Noticias reported.
The child was discharged later in the day and remains in the care of the National Integrated Family Development System, which is caring for him while police search for his family.
Gaby Bonilla, who oversees the social assistance agency, revealed on her X account that she met the boy on Wednesday.
“I am happy to report that his health is good and he will recover very quickly,” she said.
Officer Betsabé Zallas (left) and her partner responded Tuesday to a 911 call of a toddler left in a suitcase on a street in the municipality of Puebla in central Mexico. Zallas told Mega Noticias she made sure the two-year-old boy was warm and placed him in their cruiser until paramedics arrived on the scene and rushed him to a hospital.
Gaby Bonilla, director of the National System for Integrated Family Development, met with the boy on Wednesday and said he is in good health
At least three other children have been abandoned by their parents in the state of Puebla this year.
On March 27, neighbors discovered a 30-week-old girl dumped in a ditch and nearly covered in dirt at a property in the Bosques de Manzana neighborhood of Puebla.
A motorist traveling on the Azumbilla-Tlacotepec highway in the city of Vicente Guerrero found a little boy abandoned on the side of a road on March 20.
A newborn girl was abandoned by an elderly woman in a tortilla shop in the municipality of Acatlán on February 24.