Mothers of abandoned babies

[Pico2]

I've just seen the news that the mother of the baby abandoned in an arcade has been charged with attempted murder. Looking back at the previous news stories for the case, police urged her to get in touch as she may need urgent medical treatment and assured her that she wouldn't be in trouble. This seems to be the standard pattern for the police to take (iirc) - the plea from the police that the mother may need urgent medical care and isn't in trouble. Then they find her and charge her with something. While some women may need medical care after an unassisted birth, I'd guess that it is by no means a universal need as the woman has managed to successfully give birth. And I find the "not in any trouble" disingenuous to say the least. It almost seems like a paternalistic action.

Is it right for the police to lure vulnerable women in this way?

charged ... and dangerous...

Perhaps she came forward and then confessed to trying to murder the baby? The police would have to charge her then wouldn't they?

there is, as other posters have said, a massive difference between simply leaving a baby safely in a public place where it will be found, and deliberately hiding it somewhere where there is a very good chance of it dying before found.

If you abandon a baby where it could die of hypothermia or be attacked by foxes then there are going to be consequences. We should have the baby banks that they have/used to have in Germany.