Newborn baby found dead on the rocks at Villa San Giovanni. She was in a plastic bag inside a backpack

The lifeless body of a newborn girl, whose ethnicity is not yet known, was found this morning among the rocks in Villa San Giovanni, in the province of Reggio Calabria, near the ferry landing stages for Sicily. The body of the little girl, probably recently delivered, was inside a plastic bag […]

The lifeless body of a newborn girl, whose ethnicity is not yet known, was found this morning among the rocks at Villa San Giovanni, in the province of Reggio Calabria, near the piers of ferries to Sicily. The body of the little girl, probably recently delivered, was inside a plastic bag in turn contained in a backpack and still had the umbilical cord attached.

To discover the body a fisherman of the place, suspicious of the backpack abandoned on the rocks. The man immediately notified the State Police and officers from the Villa San Giovanni police station and the Reggio Calabria flying squad intervened on site and informed the magistrate on duty. The scientific police also intervened at the site of the discovery and are carrying out the investigations. It would appear that the backpack was brought among the rocks by land a few hours after giving birth. Probably, according to the somatic features of the newborn, the mother is a foreign woman.

Investigators are focusing their attention onascertainment of the causes of death of the little one. The Prosecutor’s Office and the police, in fact, will have to understand whether the little girl died during childbirth and was abandoned already lifeless or whether her death occurred due to suffocation due to the way in which she was abandoned. Hence the decision whether to open an investigation for concealment of a body or for murder. An answer, in this sense, is could do an autopsy which will be ordered by the public prosecutor. Finally, in these hours, the Reggio Calabria flying team is checking whether there are cameras in the area that could have filmed something that could prove useful for the investigations.