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The search for the mother of three abandoned babies

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The mother could be captive in an east London home 
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 17 May 2025
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Elsa had been alive less than an hour and her umbilical cord was still attached when she was wrapped in a towel, put in a Boots shopping bag and left on the Greenway, a cycle path built on a Victorian sewage pipe that runs through east London.

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