Heartbreaking Discovery: Woman Finds Newborn Baby Girl Abandoned in Trash Bag After Mistaking Crying for a Cat

THIS is the shocking moment a newborn baby is found inside a rubbish bag by an innocent local who thought she heard a crying cat.

The little girl was discovered with her umbilical cord still attached dumped inside a plastic sack covered by a black towel in on Monday.

She was found after a resident on Otavio Ignacio da Silva Street, Parana, thought she heard one of her cats wailing and went outside to check.

The bystander, named Katia Andreja Bege, then checked the neighbouring yard before making the grim discovery.

Katia found a transparent plastic bag covered with a black cloth.

To her horror, there was a newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached inside.

Astonishing footage showed Katia holding the tiny newborn in her arms after she had been discovered.

She appeared to cradle her while thanking God for finding her.

Katia said: “Thank God I found her!”

In the clip, a neighbour who filmed the baby shortly after the discovery can also be heard describing what had happened.

The neighbour said: “Goodness, look what my neighbour found inside the rubbish bag thrown there in the yard.

“She still has the umbilical cord! My God! She has just found her!

“She thought it was her cat crying, went to look and saw a child inside the rubbish. My God!”

Paramedics rushed to the property and took the baby to the Hospital de Clinicas in Curitiba, where she arrived at around 4am.

Doctors said the baby had been born at full term after 40 weeks of pregnancy and weighed 2.8kg.

She arrived with severe hypothermia but was breathing spontaneously.

The newborn examination in the neonatal intensive care unit where medics found she had suffered two fractures, involving her collarbone and thigh bone, at birth.

Her birth did not take place inside a hospital, they said.

Despite arriving with severe hypothermia and injuries, the newborn’s condition was described as stable.

Initial investigations indicated that the baby’s mum was a pregnant teenager who had given birth that morning before leaving the newborn in the empty lot opposite her home.

Police chief Joao Paulo Pelaez claimed the teenager believed the baby was dead and then chose to leave it at the site.

The teenager told police she had hidden the pregnancy because it had resulted from rape, reports say.

She and her parents were taken to the police station to give statements.

The teenager will face trial while remaining free.

The Parana Civil Police have opened an into suspected abandonment of a vulnerable person.