French couple arrested after baby found in car boot
A couple has been arrested after a malnourished and underdeveloped baby girl was found in the boot of a car in France's Dordogne region on Sunday.
Staff at a garage in Terrasson said they heard moans from the back of a vehicle brought in for repairs.
They found a child - aged between 15 and 23 months - pale, feverish, naked and lying in her own excrement.
Her mother said she had kept the birth a secret. She and her partner were arrested on suspicion of child abuse.
Their three other children have been taken into social care.
A local prosecutor, Jean-Pierre Laffite, said the situation "defied belief".
"The girl was suffering from serious [developmental] delays," he told the AFP news agency.
The mechanic who found the girl, Guillaume Iguacel, said he was having trouble sleeping.
"It was a horrifying sight seeing this little girl in her own excrement, not able to hold up her head, white as a sheet," he explained,
Mr Iguacel said the garage staff had told the mother to remove the girl from the boot and give her something to drink immediately.