HAZRA ALI has been charged with abandoning the baby girl.

August 08, 2000
Compliled from reports in the Trinidad Express

AGATHA ALI’s baby has been removed from an incubator and is recovering after being dumped on the banks of the Gasparillo River last week.

And Ali’s mother has been charged for the offence.

Hazra Ali's Attorney Subhas Panday, in his request for bail for her, told the magistrate that she is not a dangerous person. He further told the magistrate that Hazra Ali has psychological problems following this affair. He is requesting a speedy hearing of this matter so that his client.

Ali, 27, who is also to be charged said, “I will give my baby to anybody who wants her,”

Baby rescued from bank by a villager.

The day-old baby was found wrapped in an old curtain last Saturday by a man who went to tend to his goats.

Ali has been a patient of the hospital since Saturday, being treated for excessive bleeding.

The baby was born at home on Cippy Street, not far from the river where the child was found.

Ali said she had been under tremendous stress from the day she knew she was pregnant.

She said she was surprised at the reaction when she told the child’s father she was pregnant.

“He is a 66-year-old man and he told me that he wanted to have nothing to do with the baby.

“I coulda dead when he told me that,” she said.

“He used to give me money to help me pay my bills. I love him, but my relatives did not care for him...because he is not East Indian.”

Thursday, August 10, 2000

Mother, child doing fine

AGATHA ALI and her baby daughter, who was abandoned near the Cippy River in Gasparillo, are both doing fine at the San Fernando General Hospital.

South West Regional Health Authority communications specialist Neil Parsanlal said all the baby’s vital organs were functioning “very well.’’

He said the hospital had received several calls from people who wanted to adopt the baby, who is in the paediatric ward, but he stressed that the process had to go through the courts.

There are also numerous calls to the radio and television stations from people who wanted to adopt the child and to offer support to the family.

Another Abandoned Baby: Baby Neal

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