In Great Britain there is a hunt for a couple of parents suspected of having abandoned three newborns in the space of less than 7 years on the outskirts of London.
The BBC revealed the facts - covered in detail by strict investigative confidentiality, against the backdrop of a story that reflects marginality and social unease. The latest episode dates back to January, with the discovery in Newham, a suburb in the eastern sector of the British capital, of a girl, renamed by the media and police with the name "Baby Elsa".
The little girl was found in the cold, with the umbilical cord still attached, by a person walking the dog. Left out in the open, she was saved at the last minute and then placed in foster care.
DNA tests therefore revealed that he had both parents in common with two little brothers, called "Baby Harry" and "Baby Roman", who were also abandoned in 2017 and 2019 respectively, and in the meantime given up for adoption by juvenile justice. of the United Kingdom.
Despite appeals from Scotland Yard and the authorities' commitment not to take excessively harsh measures against them, the parents of the three newborns have so far neither come forward nor been traced.
Judge Carol Atkinson of the East London Family Court, however, authorized the BBC and the PA agency to make the incident public, albeit with the restrictions of the case to protect the privacy and identity of the people involved.
It is a story of "great collective interest", explained the judge, urging reflection on family problems and those linked to the inequalities that afflict the country and the capital in particular.
(Unioneonline)
