Police in London are asking the public to avoid “unhelpful” commentary after anewborn was found alive in a shopping bagamid sub-freezing temperatures more than a week ago.
Comments online regarding the story “have been largely incredibly kind, supportive and understanding,” Chief Superintendent Simon Cricksaid in a release published Friday. However, police are unhappy with some users’ conduct on social media.
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“Please consider what you post – and the possibility that she might even read it – and help us with our primary aim of identifying her to make sure that she’s OK,” he added.
The child was hospitalized after she was found but has since been discharged, according to the police chief. Local officials will “continue to make sure she’s well looked after and cared for” in the meantime, he added.
Crick said police “have identified a woman we would like to speak to, and a witness who may have seen her.”
“We believe the woman is Black, was wearing a large dark coat with a light coloured scarf or hood around her neck and had a rucksack on her back,” he said. She is believed to have “left The Greenway heading in the direction [of] Fabian Street.”
Police are also interested in speaking with a potential witness “wearing a dark coloured hooded coat” and carrying a backpack, one of which had a reflective strip on its rear. The man left The Greenway at around 9:10 p.m., according to the police chief.
Anyone with information about the woman in question or the witness is asked to call police “immediately.” Those with information also about the child’s mother are asked to call 999 ref CAD 6876/18 Jan.
source: people.com
