Police search for mother after newborn baby found abandoned in Sydney’s west
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Police search for mother after newborn baby found abandoned in Sydney’s west

Police were called to a home in Blacktown on Friday afternoon and the baby girl was taken to hospital. Officers are appealing for information about her parents.

  • byGeorgina Mitchell

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