TOKYO (TR) – The body of a just-born baby was found in a handbag inside a garbage can at a parking lot in the Kabukicho red-light district of Shinjuku Ward, TV Asahi reports (Feb. 15).
At around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a male pedestrian found the open black handbag with the baby inside in the garbage can for a vending machine along a street of love hotels and alerted a nearby police box.
The baby, whose umbilical cord was still attached, was confirmed dead about 40 minutes after being transported to a nearby hospital.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police are investigating the case as abandonment of a corpse, and plans to perform an autopsy of the baby’s body.
