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A man was arrested June 2 for abandoning his newborn baby in a church in Kerala.
Police said they traced the parents of the two-day old baby based on CCTV footage that went viral on social media platforms.
The baby’s father will be charged under various sections of IPC and Juvenile Justice Act, police said. CCTV footage aired by television channels and circulated on social media showed a couple leaving the child at one of the temporary erected confessionals in the premises of St George Forane Church in Edapally, a suburb of Kochi, Kerala’s commercial capital.
The church’s security staff noticed the child at around 8:30 pm on June 1 and immediately alerted the police.
The recently renovated church draws thousands of visitors and devotees daily.
Police traced the child’s parents to Wadakancherry in Trichur district, some 90 km north of Edapally.
In the CCTV footage, the couple along with another child of around 3 years old, was seen walking into the church premises around 8:15 pm with the baby wrapped in an orange sheet. The father kissed the baby on its forehead before carefully placing the infant on the ground.
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