The woman who abandoned her new-born baby boy in a sugarcane plantation at Sitio Talotog, Brgy. Taba-ao, in Sagay City , may be liable for frustrated infanticide, police said.

Supt. William Senoron, Sagay police chief, however, said they are in a quandary on whether or not to file charges against the 34-year-old woman whose identity is being withheld by the DAILY STAR.

Police records show that the suspect also ahs four other children, abandoned by her husband, and living on a mouth-to-hand existence.

“If we file charges against her, who will take care of her four children?” Senoron asked.

The umbilical cord was still attached to the baby, who was lying on newly-cut cane stalks near a piece of cloth containing a placenta, when he was found by a certain Rosemarie Escovilla on Jan. 31.

Senoron said the mother, who is a farm worker, admitted leaving her new-born baby in the canefield.

The baby is now being treated for infections at the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod City , through the courtesy of Sagay City government.*GPB

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