Overview
- A neighbor’s 911 call around 5:00–5:40 a.m. on January 7 led police to a newborn inside a public trash container on Riobamba in San Martín.
- Teniente Verónica Ayala and Sargento Hugo Leiva found the baby naked under garbage bags with an improvisedly cut umbilical cord and rushed her by patrol car to Hospital Municipal Dr. Diego Thompson.
- Doctors assessed a premature birth of roughly 36 weeks and 1,890 grams, admitted her to neonatal intensive care, and reported a clinically stable condition.
- Hospital staff estimate a natural home delivery near 5 a.m., based on the artisanal cut of the cord and lack of hospital birth records.
- UFI No. 3, led by prosecutor Daniel Cangelosi, is treating the case as abandonment of a person, reviewing security footage and documenting the scene, with the local child-protection service engaged and no suspect identified publicly.