Police on Saturday arrested the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in a stroller in South Los Angeles.
Belen Ramirez, 20, of Long Beach, was arrested at 12:30 a.m. on suspicion of child endangerment and cruelty to a child, said Officer Mike Lopez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Ramirez was being held at the LAPD’s 77th Street Station jail in lieu of $100,000 bail, Lopez said.
Lopez said he could not say where Ramirez was arrested because the information was part of an ongoing investigation.
A man found the newborn boy, whose umbilical cord was still attached, about 1 p.