Overview
- Clinic staff at Klinikum St. Georg discovered the infant on February 27 after an alarm from the baby hatch was triggered in the evening.
- Leipzig's homicide unit has taken over a death inquiry, and authorities have not yet determined the cause or timing of death.
- An autopsy has been completed, with additional forensic tests underway to clarify whether the child was born alive.
- Police issued a public appeal for tips, seeking information about a woman who had been pregnant and now has no child and any observations near the clinic that night.
- The St. Georg baby hatch is Leipzig’s only such facility, in service since 2004; the clinic says the interior is video‑monitored without filming depositors, though some reports describe the exterior area as not under video surveillance.