Lawyer detained over newborn's death in Sheikh Zayed City

Egyptian prosecutors ordered a lawyer detained four days after police established she abandoned the newborn she had reported finding on a street in Sheikh Zayed City.

• A 31-year-old lawyer reported finding a newborn on the street in front of a commercial store in Sheikh Zayed City.
• The infant died in hospital after being admitted in critical condition.
• Police investigation, including surveillance camera review, established that the woman is the child's mother.
• She confessed to being the mother, saying the child's father refused to recognize him.