US jury indicts mother for dumping newborn ‘Baby India’ in the woods
- Karima Jiwani was arrested in May after a nearly four-year investigation into the case involving an infant who was found alive inside a plastic bag in Georgia’s Forsyth county
- Police said the little girl, born inside a car, was later adopted and is thriving
A Forsyth county grand jury in the US state of Georgia this week indicted a woman accused of placing her newborn daughter in a plastic bag and leaving her in the woods in 2019.
Karima Jiwani, 40, was arrested in May after a nearly four-year investigation, the sheriff’s office said. She was indicted on two charges: criminal attempt to commit murder and cruelty to children in the first degree.
Jiwani remained on Wednesday in the Forsyth jail, where she is being held without bond.
On June 6, 2019, deputies were called to an isolated stretch of Daves Creek Road after a family nearby heard the baby girl’s cries. As the family was unpacking from a trip just before 10pm (local time), two teenage daughters heard the recognisable noise, investigators previously said.
Deputies rescued the child and performed first aid until she could be taken to a hospital, where workers decided to call her India rather than the standard baby Jane Doe. Investigators now believe she was born earlier that day inside a car, Sheriff Ron Freeman said after Jiwani’s arrest.
