Newborn baby found dead among the rocks in Villa San Giovanni (Reggio Calabria).

The lifeless body of a newborn baby girl was found among the rocks at Villa San Giovanni, in the province of Reggio Calabria, near the ferry docks for Sicily.

The body of the little girl, probably given birth a few hours earlier, was inside a plastic bag, itself contained in a backpack and still had the umbilical cord attached. The police are investigating the incident and carrying out investigations.

It was a fisherman who spotted the backpack, abandoned among the rocks. She also intervened at the site of the discovery the Scientific Police who are carrying out the investigations of the case. It seems that the backpack was taken to the rocks by land a few hours after giving birth.

Investigators are focusing their attention on ascertaining the causes of the little girl's death. In fact, the Prosecutor's Office and the Police will have to understand whether the little girl died during childbirth and was abandoned already lifeless or whether her death occurred due to suffocation due to the way in which she was abandoned. From here the decision whether to open an investigation for concealment of a body or for murder. An answer, in this sense, could be provided by the autopsy that will be ordered by the public prosecutor.

It is not excluded that the investigations were extended to the health and hospital facilities in the area to find out if one woman, most likely foreign, has possibly presented herself for treatment after giving birth.