Police search for mother and child after evidence of human birth found on Sydney riverbank

Officers urge mother to go to hospital to receive care for herself and her child

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Police are searching for a mother and newborn baby after finding evidence she may have given birth by a Sydney riverbank.

Emergency services were called to Cooks River at Earlwood in the city’s south-west on Monday afternoon after a resident walking his dog found what police believed to be a placenta and umbilical cord.

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