Throughout the night, people in a Tegucigalpa neighborhood heard the screaming, they thought, of a cat.
Tired of hearing the persistent noise, a La TravesÃa neighbor checked around the area for the source of the annoying sounds. Peering upon a neighbor’s roof, the shocked person saw a newborn infant, wrapped in sheets. The baby still had its umbilical cord in tact.
The alarmed villagers called the National Police, and the baby, only hours old, was admitted to the emergency room of the Mother and Child (Materno Infantil) Hospital in the Honduran capital.
“That woman needs punishment; she is definitely not a mother,” said Paola Alvarenga, a horrified resident in the care center.
