Baby Elsa cops reveal Boots shopping bag freezing newborn was found in with £20K to find parents who dumped 3 siblings
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COPS have revealed the Boots shopping bag Baby Elsa was found dumped in - as they offer a £20,000 appeal for information. The freezing newborn was found by a member of the public one year ago today, at 9.13pm in East London. She was wrapped in a towel and left near the junction of Greenway and High Street South.
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Police discovered the infant was thankfully uninjured and she was taken to hospital as a precaution. Staff named the newborn Elsa after the Frozen character, because the little one had been so cold when she arrived. She has since been raised in foster care and Family Court heard last month she was "doing very well".
![[Baby boy in red and grey striped onesie.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-pa-photo-judge-family-906900567.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The Met's Child Abuse Investigation Team later uncovered Elsa was actually related to two other babies who had been found in similar ways. Her sibling Baby Harry was abandoned shortly after being born in September 2017 and was wrapped in a blanket. Baby Roman was also discovered in a towel, placed inside a Sainsbury's shopping bag, in February 2019.
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Harry and Roman have since been adopted, which is also the plan for Elsa, said Newham Children's Services. The trio, who are all safe and well, are also full siblings, according to DNA tests. However, while the police investigation is active, Elsa's birth can't be registered, which is preventing the tot from being adopted.
![[Two police officers standing at a Greenway entrance.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-london-uk-police-patrol-873096634.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Family Court officials have stated they are "very concerned" and wish to see the issue resolved as soon as possible. Senior judge in East London Family Court, Carol Atkinson, said last month Elsa is living in an "ongoing state of uncertainty", as reported by the BBC.
![[Illustration of London map showing locations where three siblings were found abandoned.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/JW-MAP-BABY-HORROR.jpg?strip=all&w=831)
