An infant abandoned in the trash can of an airplane toilet

It is a discovery as unexpected as sinister that the agents of the Mauritius airport made on Saturday January 1, 2022. Newborn baby found in airplane toilet from Air Mauritius.

It was in the evening, after the disembarkation of the passengers of flight MK289, which joined Madagascar and Mauritius, that the customs team discovered the infant. While officers were inspecting the Airbus, one of them said that at around 7.40 p.m. he was intrigued by screams coming from the trash in the plane’s toilets. Believing at first that it was a cat, he examined the trash and found there, under bloodstained papers, an infant. The newborn male was still alive and well, and was immediately taken to Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital in Rose-Belle.

Baby’s mother identified

Following this discovery, airport police ordered that none of the passengers on flight MK289 be released so that they can be questioned. A woman with traces of blood on her clothes was quickly suspected of being responsible for the abandonment of the newborn. After denying the facts at first, she was identified as the infant’s mother through a medical examination noting that the placenta was still present. The young Madagascan woman, Angelica Nanahary, is 20 years old and had just arrived in Mauritius with a two-year work permit to work in a call center.

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If the baby and the young woman are in good health, the mother has been taken into police custody, after having remained under medical observation. The young woman claimed she did not know she was pregnant, but the thesis of denial of pregnancy is not the thesis envisaged by the Criminal Investigation Division of the airport: risking not being authorized to travel to Mauritius in its state, the young Madagascan would have potentially concealed her pregnancy to the immigration services. The Madagascan national will soon be brought to justice for abandonment of a newborn baby.