Police lash out at trolls over Baby Elsa found in a bag in Newham | UK News

Detectives investigating how a newborn was abandoned on a freezing roadside have hit out at social media trolls for ‘abusing’ the child’s mother.

The baby, named only as Elsa, was found crying in a shopping bag with only a blanket to shield her from sub-zero temperatures in Newham, east London, at around 9pm last Thursday.

She had been left by High Street South – a busy dual carriageway – where it gives onto a long footpath known as Greenway.

It was soon discovered she was just an hour old when she was found, and still had her umbilical cord attached.

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