An east London neighbourhood is desperate for answers about how three baby siblings came to be abandoned and left in freezing parks. This week it was revealed that Harry, Roman and Elsa – each abandoned over a seven-year period – were all from the same family, and the mother is thought to have been local to Plaistow, in east London. All three were dumped just off a popular jogging path called the Greenway, just metres from a maternity ward at Newham University Hospital.
The latest baby, named Elsa by hospital staff after the Disney character, was less than an hour old when she was found in a shopping bag in sub-zero temperatures on 18 January. Her sister Roman was discovered in 2019, in a park used by rough sleepers and, according to residents, frequented by dangerous-dog owners. One pensioner told The Independent he carries a flick knife whenever he walks his pug there.
The oldest sibling, Harry, was found in a park off Balaam Street in 2017, wrapped in a white towel. One local primary school teacher said: “I was in shock when I found out they were all related. It is someone from the area, definitely.
“At first I was a little bit worried it was one of our mothers but we would have seen any parent that was showing, even if it was very small...
it’s all very sad.” Dog walker Tom Harris, 76, passes the bench where Roman was found, off Roman Road, every day. He said: “She must be local and very lonely.
Someone must know something. To give birth the old-fashioned wa.
