Brazilian police have arrested the mother of a baby girl who was rescued after being put in a black plastic bag and thrown into a lake to drown.
The infant was largely unharmed and was released from a hospital as police arrested her mother.
The baby, about two months old, was saved by a couple who heard her crying in the Pampulha Lagoon in Belo Horizonte, a city about 500km north-east of Sao Paulo.
Amateur video broadcast on Brazilian TV showed rescuers using a long tree branch to pull the plastic bag from the water.
Inside they found the girl - wearing a soaked pink dress.
"I heard what sounded like a cat," Jose da Cruz told Globo TV.
"Then the noise was increasing and it caught my attention."
A small wooden board inside the bag apparently kept it from submerging.
The mother denied to police that she threw the girl into the lake, Globo reported.
She instead said she had given the child away to a group of homeless people because she didn't have enough money to raise her.
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The infant was largely unharmed and was released from a hospital as police arrested her mother.
The baby, about two months old, was saved by a couple who heard her crying in the Pampulha Lagoon in Belo Horizonte, a city about 500km north-east of Sao Paulo.
Amateur video broadcast on Brazilian TV showed rescuers using a long tree branch to pull the plastic bag from the water.
Inside they found the girl - wearing a soaked pink dress.
"I heard what sounded like a cat," Jose da Cruz told Globo TV.
"Then the noise was increasing and it caught my attention."
A small wooden board inside the bag apparently kept it from submerging.
The mother denied to police that she threw the girl into the lake, Globo reported.
She instead said she had given the child away to a group of homeless people because she didn't have enough money to raise her.
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