The woman who abandoned her child on the stairs of an apartment building in central Chisinau was identified and arrested by the police, IPN reports.

According to the Chisinau Police Division, the girl’s mother turned out to be a woman aged 20 from the district of Hâncești.

The woman is to be questioned by the investigation officer and district prosecutor so as to establish the circumstances that made her act like this.

A child of about two weeks was found on the stairs of a block situated on Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt Blvd by a dweller. Criminal proceedings were instituted in this case.