- A two-year-old boy was found inside an abandoned suitcase on a street in the central Mexican city of Puebla
- The child had bruises on his face and was treated for hypothermia and malnutrition.
- At least four children have been abandoned in the state of Puebla in 2024
Authorities are searching for the parents of a two-year-old boy who was abandoned in a suitcase in the central Mexican city of Puebla.
The disturbing discovery occurred Tuesday morning when a woman walking through the La Loma neighborhood heard a child crying.
The woman approached the suitcase and found the child covered in water.
While changing the boy’s clothes, the officer noticed that he showed signs that he had been recently beaten.
‘He had visible wounds on his face,’ officer Betsabé Zallas told Mega Noticias.
Puebla police officer Betsabé Zallas holds a two-year-old boy who was found abandoned in a suitcase abandoned on a sidewalk on Tuesday. The child had bruises on his face and was treated for hypothermia and malnutrition. The authorities are looking for these parents.
A two-year-old boy was found this Tuesday inside a suitcase in the Puebla neighborhood of La Loma after a neighbor heard the child’s cries.
Authorities in the city of Puebla, capital of the central Mexican state of Puebla, are searching for the parents of a two-year-old boy who was found in a suitcase on Tuesday. The little boy is the fourth child abandoned on the streets of the state of Puebla this year
‘Likewise, my job was to protect the minor, keep him warm so that he could (be taken) to the police patrol to determine the minor’s diagnosis.’
Paramedics arrived at the scene and found him in good health and then rushed him to the Northern General Hospital, where doctors diagnosed him and treated him for hypothermia, malnutrition and numbness in his body, ABC Noticias reported.
The boy was discharged that same day and remains in the custody of the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family, which is caring for him while the police search for his family.
Gaby Bonilla, who oversees the social assistance agency, revealed on her X account that she met with the boy on Wednesday.
“I am pleased to share that his health is favorable and he will recover very soon,” he said.
Officer Betsabé Zallas (left) and her partner responded Tuesday to a 911 call about a small child abandoned in a suitcase on a street in the municipality of Puebla, in central Mexico. Zallas told Mega Noticias that she made sure the two-year-old boy was warm and placed him in her patrol car until paramedics arrived on the scene and rushed him to a hospital.
The director of the National System for Comprehensive Family Development, Gaby Bonilla, met with the child this Wednesday and said that he is in good health.
At least three other children have been abandoned by their parents in the state of Puebla this year.
Neighbors discovered a 30-week-old girl dumped in a ditch and almost covered in dirt on a property in Bosques de Manzana, a neighborhood in Puebla, on March 27.
A motorist traveling on the Azumbilla-Tlacotepec highway in the city of Vicente Guerrero found an abandoned baby on the side of a road on March 20.
A newborn girl was abandoned by an elderly woman in a tortilla factory in the municipality of Acatlán on February 24.