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Baby abandoned in shopping bag is third child from same parents

DNA testing has revealed that an abandoned baby girl, found in a shopping bag in freezing conditions earlier this year, shares the same parents as two other abandoned newborns.

Judge Carol Atkinson confirmed that the infant, later named Baby Elsa, has two siblings who were also discovered alone in 2017 and 2019 in London. The children were found over a seven-year period, just miles apart from each other, according to The Mirror.




The other infant, Roman, was also found in a shopping bag, while the first baby, dubbed Harry, was discovered wrapped in a blanket.

Despite these shocking discoveries, police have been unable to identify the parents, leading to an appeal from the Met. An update was announced at East London Family Court on Monday, when the judge confirmed the news could be published.

Here we detail the circumstances of each sibling, all found in similar conditions, reports the Daily Record.

Baby Elsa was discovered in freezing temperatures in East Ham on the evening of January 18 this year. It’s believed she was less than an hour old when a dog walker found her, swaddled in a towel in a reusable shopping bag with her umbilical cord still attached.

The baby girl was discovered at the juncture of Greenway and High Street South. Hospital staff affectionately named her Elsa, after the character from Disney’s ‘Frozen’, reflecting the icy conditions she was found in.

At the time, the Metropolitan Police suggested it was “highly likely” that Elsa was born following a “concealed pregnancy”.

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