Baby Elsa cops offer £20,000 reward to find parents who dumped newborn baby in Boots bag
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Police have offered a huge reward to help trace the parents of three newborn babies discovered dumped shortly after their births. Baby Elsa was found alive in a shopping bag near the Greenway footpath in east London a year ago, when she was only an hour old. Doctors named her Elsa, after the character in Disney’s Frozen, as she was so cold when she was found.
In February 2019, baby Roman was found wrapped in a white towel and also placed in a shopping bag. Another baby, named Harry, was discovered in September 2017, also wrapped in a blanket, also shortly after he was born. Enquiries by the Met’s Child Abuse Investigation Team revealed Elsa was biologically related to the two other babies. To support this investigation, the charity Crimestoppers, which is independent of the police, is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information given to them anonymously.
Detective Inspector Jamie Humm of the Child Abuse Investigation Team said “We have carried out extensive enquiries over the past year to try and locate Elsa’s parents. This has involved reviewing over 450 hours of CCTV and completing a full DNA structure of the mother.
“We have also worked with wider specialists who are of the view that the mum and possibly also the father have been residing in the Plaistow or East Ham area over the past six years. We have serious concerns for the well-being of the parents, especially the mother and are continuing to work closely with Newham Council and appeal for the public’s help for information.
