Kobe Kita Police Station Arrests Mother Who Abandoned Baby After Giving Birth; Kumamoto Hospital that Consulted Her Protests, Saying "This Is a Case that Should Be protected."

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In the case of a 24-year-old mother from Kita Ward, Kobe, who was arrested for abandoning the body of a newborn baby girl, Dr. Ken Hasuda, director of Jikei Hospital (Kumamoto City), which operates the "Stork's Cradle" (baby hatch) that anonymously accepts infants whose parents cannot raise them, said at a press conference in Kobe on the 29th, "We contacted the police after receiving a consultation from the mother." Dr. Hasuda has submitted a do…