A newborn girl has been found covered in bites and sever sunburn being abandoned on an ant hill by her mother who now faces an attempted murder charge.
Nadezhda Sorokina, 32, from Russia, left the day-old girl in Milenino on July 23 before a horrified passerby spotted the screaming baby.
HOW THE BABY WAS FOUND
Nikolai Pakhomov found the newborn covered in agonising ant bites and told local media that he initially thought the baby’s crying was kittens mewing.Â
The 25-year-old said: ‘Automatically, I dialled ‘112’ and called the paramedics.
‘I took off my T-shirt, wrapped the baby in it, and carried her to the ambulance’.
Medics, who declared the newborn fit apart from the insect bites and sunburn, called in a local priest who named the tot Maria Nikolaevna, in honour of her rescuer.
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Maria is in the custody of local child services and there is already a married couple waiting to adopt her, reports local media.
MOM ARRESTED
Police later tracked down Sorokina, who now facing an attempted murder charge.
The single mum of three reportedly confessed to giving birth to the girl on July 22 and then abandoning her because she could not afford to feed a fourth child.
