British police trace mother of toddler found abandoned

Police have traced the mother of a young girl who was found abandoned in a pram outside a house late yesterday.

The child, believed to be aged either two or three, was discovered outside an address in Warwick Road in Carlisle, Cumbria, at about 11pm yesterday after a woman rang the doorbell and then disappeared.

The people living at the house did not know the woman who called at their property and alerted police to the late night disturbance, police said. When they arrived, officers found the children  in a pram.

There was no trace of the woman in the city centre area

A 42-year-old woman from Carlisle was arrested today on suspicion of child neglect, said Cumbria Constabulary.

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