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Two-year-old girl in `Amma' cradle

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Feb. 28. A girl child, barely two years old, was found abandoned in the `Amma' electronic cradle at the State Council for Child Welfare here today.

The infant, who was named Anu by the Council staff, was found in the cradle around 3 p.m. She was sitting in the cradle when found and looked quite clean and happy, Council authorities said.

The child weighs 9 kg and has no health problems. Though she cried initially, she was soon seen smiling and playing with other babies in the Council's foundling home.

This is the sixth infant to be found in the electronic cradle after it was set up in mid-November last year. Other than Chinnu, a three-and-a-half year old girl found in the cradle and later claimed by a vagrant woman as her own child, the others were all babies as young as one or two months old.

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