A newborn boy was found abandoned inside a red shopping bag left by the roadside in Lapu-Lapu City yesterday.
The baby still had his umbilical cord attached, indicating his mother had just given birth.
He had a gray scarf for a blanket and a dark piece of cloth as a pillow.
The woman who discovered the infant, 38-year-old resident Rubelyn Cambor, said she was about to buy something at 6 a.m. in the sari-sari store in sitio Sto. Niño, barangay Basak when she noticed the paperbag on the ground was moving.
Unless the mother of this baby boy comes forward, he’ll be put up for adoption. The infant was found in a shopping bag left by the road in barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City. (SCREEN GRAB FROM LUZ MENDOZA’S VIDEO ON FB)
She said she was shocked to find the infant inside with no sign of where he came from or the baby’s mother.
Cambor said she took the child and asked her neighbors if they knew who the parents were butno one seemed to know. .
The baby was later brought to the Lapu-Lapu City Hospital where he was declared in stable condition.
Photos of the newborn, who has fair skin and Asian features, circulated widely on the Internet after it was posted.
The discovery was reported to social worker Chery Montebon, said PO2 Raquel Gacoscosim of the Women and Children’s Protection Desk (WCPD) of the Marigondon police precinct.
The baby will be referred to the care of Norfil Foundation Inc., a non-government organization that takes custody of abandoned children and later offers them for adoption.