A newborn baby boy was tragically discovered dead inside a thermal cradle at the San Giovanni Battista Church in Bari, Italy. The baby was found by a funeral home director who noticed the door to the baby box wasn't closed properly. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the baby's death and will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and time of death.
The baby was discovered at the San Giovanni Battista Church in Bari , Italy , on Jan. 2, according to local mediaBecca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on ET Canada, Metro and the Mail Online.A newborn has been found dead inside a "thermal cradle" left for abandoned babies at a church in Italy , according to reports.
It's thought the person who left the baby didn't close the door to the room where the cradle was located, meaning the alarm wasn't triggered like it was meant to to let parish priest, Father Antonio Ruccia, know he was there, per the news agency.Ruccia did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
An autopsy will now be carried out on the baby to determine how and when he died, a police spokesperson told CNN.The church's baby box was said to have been successfully used in two cases prior to this one; once on July 19, 2020 and again on Dec. 23, 2023, perThe cradle was added at the church after a dead baby was discovered on a beach in the nearby town of Monopoli in 2015, Ansa reported.
"The boxes are the high tech, modern equivalent of the old medieval foundling wheels operated by orphanages in Padua from the 1400s until 1888," the NIH website reads.
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