A 38-year-old Quebec woman has been charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life after allegedly abandoning her newborn shortly after giving birth outdoors on New Year’s Day.
The woman, who can’t be named due to a publication ban protecting the infant, was scheduled to appear in court today in Trois-Rivières, about 125 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Trois-Rivières police spokesperson Stéphanie Côté says police received a call shortly after 3 p.m. on Jan. 1 regarding a woman who had just given birth on the street near downtown.
Côté says officers arrived at the scene and found the baby, who was being cared for by passersby who stopped to help.
The mother was located by police officers a few blocks away, and both she and the child were taken to hospital.
Côté says the baby was only outside in the cold for a few minutes but remains under observation in a Montreal children’s hospital.
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