As luck or fate would have it, a worker on his way home passed a waste bin and heard moans coming from inside. Intrigued, he opened it and the scene he found himself in front of, from his words, is something he will never forget for the rest of his life.
The newborn still alive
Closed in a plastic bag among all kinds of waste, there was a newborn, who still had the placenta and umbilical cord attached to his body, a sign that the baby had only been born a few hours ago. Having recovered from the initial shock, the 49-year-old man who lives in a house near where he found the newborn immediately understood that the situation was serious, given the freezing temperatures, and raised the alarm. It happened around 8pm in Villanova Canavese, a municipality in the province of Turin, where just over a thousand people live.
Despite the cold and the stay in the dumpster, the little one was still alive and crying, which saved his life, attracting the attention of the worker. 118 and the Nor carabinieri, the mobile radio section, immediately intervened on the spot and coordinated the transport of the child to the nearest hospital which was Ciriè, where he is now hospitalized and the doctors have confirmed that his life is not in danger.
The research
The police, after having secured the newborn in the care of paediatricians, began investigations to understand who could have committed such a horrible act towards a child who had just been born, who could have been left anonymously in the thermal cots present in every hospital. From the initial findings, the police have not yet identified visible surveillance systems that could have filmed the moment of abandonment, a detail which leads one to think that these are people who knew the place.