Woman Caught After Abandoning Baby With Umbilical Cord

A 24-year-old woman was arrested by the police after DNA test confirmed she was the mother of an abandoned baby with her umbilical cord still attached.

Police identified the woman as Miwa Sato, a part-time worker, who lives nearby with her mother and grandmother, Fuji TV reported.

 

A male acquaintance of Sato, after seeing the news on TV, contacted police to say she might have been the person who abandoned the baby. On Friday, a DNA test identified Sato as the infant’s mother.

Sato, who is single, was quoted by police as saying her mother and grandmother were out when she gave birth last Tuesday. She said she had no one to talk to and then her mind went completely blank.

Sato’s mother and grandmother told police they didn’t even know she was pregnant.