Overview
- Routine hospital testing detected cocaine in a 45‑day‑old girl in Misiones and a three‑month‑old in Bahía Blanca during mid‑June, triggering urgent medical attention and notifications to child‑protection authorities.
- Both infants remain under medical observation and are reported stable while doctors complete exams and monitor for possible effects on health and development.
- In Misiones the mother left the hospital before recommended care, police located the pair, and a family court judge ordered the baby placed in a children's home under judicial protection.
- The Bahía Blanca case is an active criminal and family investigation handled by UFIJ N.º 1, which has requested medical records, forensic tests and socio‑environmental studies and noted a similar hospital contact for the same infant in May.
- Under Argentine protocol hospitals alert municipal child‑protection bodies and the Fiscalía when drugs are found in minors, a process that can lead to custody measures or criminal imputations depending on pericias and social assessments.