Overview
- Local police located a 15-day-old boy in a filthy apartment in Rome after the mother took him from the maternity ward before postnatal checks.
- Officers found the infant naked on a mattress on a dirty floor surrounded by trash, mold, and debris, and they moved him to a neonatal unit for care.
- About 5 kilograms of marijuana and hashish were seized from the home, which Carabinieri forensic labs confirmed and valued at roughly €60,000–€70,000 or 7,914 doses.
- The mother's 49-year-old partner, a Romanian citizen, was arrested on suspicion of drug dealing and placed under house arrest, while the 31-year-old mother was reported to prosecutors.
- The Polizia Locale’s N.A.E. unit, acting for the juvenile prosecutor, traced the family to the IV Municipio, and the case is linked to an earlier probe after another newborn died following an unattended home birth.