No charges following abandoned baby claim

Date published: 20 July 2011


No action will be taken against a 28-year-old woman from Bury who claimed a baby had been abandoned by the side of a road in Edenfield, near Rochdale.

Police began a major search following a report that a newborn baby had been dumped on 10 May.  A blood-stained blanket in a bag was found on Rochdale Road but there was no trace of the baby, or the mother.

The woman who was arrested and bailed has been released without charge.

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