The Valiathura police has entrusted the State Child Welfare Council’s Thycaud centre with the protection of an eight-month-old girl child found abandoned near the Vettukad Church around 11 a.m. on Saturday.
The police have decided to keep the baby at the centre till details of the parents are available.
The council authorities took the baby to the Women and Children Hospital, Thycaud, for a medical check-up and her health was found to be satisfactory. The baby has been named Athulya as per the District Collector’s direction.