Police Find Two Dead Discarded Fetuses This Week In Costa Rica

Police Find Two Dead Discarded Fetuses This Week In Costa Rica

Within the space of 24 hours, two abandoned fetuses have been discovered this week, discarded in the public streets of Costa Rica.  One was found in a trash can outside of the San Juan de Dios Hospital and the other in Bajos Piuses de Tibás in San José.  According to Walter Espinoza, the Judicial Investigative Ageny (OIJ) director, this is far from unusual with an apparent increase in fetal abandonment recorded in recent years.

In his televised press statement, Espinoza said that one of the fetuses was found by a vagrant around 1.30 in the morning, rummaging through a trash can by the hospital and immediately alerted the police.  The other later in the day, was spotted by a few of the local residents in Bajo Piuses de Tibás whilst they were clearing an overgrown area in a street.  The highly decomposed body was inside a plastic bag and because of the state of its decay, police believe it will be virtually impossible to ascertain the age of the unborn child.

Neither of the cases or their circumstances have been resolved, with both the investigations still in their early stages, but these two findings are not as uncommon as one might imagine in Costa Rica.

In early May, a 30-32 week old newborn was found in a trash can by the Bancrédito bank office in La Uruca, San José.  Fortunately the baby was still breathing inside the plastic bag it was discarded in and treated at the National Children´s Hospital.  The mother was later found and arrested.

Another 7-8 month gestational aged fetus was found by a man who discovered a green trash bag discarded in his back yard on June 18th.  On June 23rd, a woman came across a decomposed fetus, again in a trash can in Guacimo, Limón with a gestation age of 8 months.

The list goes on.  Along with several other fetuses abandoned this year alone, a woman was found to have burned her miscarried fetus in late March and left the remains in waste lands until its gruesome discovery.

New proposals are now underway to establish “newborn drop-boxes” around Costa Rica which have been carried out by both England and Germany to some degree of success.  This initiative would hopefully avoid abandonment’s in the future, although addressing the causes behind mothers taking such drastic measures have yet to be determined.

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