A three-month-old baby was taken into emergency police protection during the early hours of this morning, over allegations the child’s carer was “intoxicated.”
Superintendent Ian Drummond-Smith has confirmed that the baby was taken into police care just before 12.30am today, after officers were called to the Tesco Extra store in Pool.
He is reported as saying officers received a call about a woman “who was intoxicated and with a child.”
Superintendent Drummond-Smith added that the woman in charge was not the child’s mother.
The baby was taken into the care of the police at 3.20am. An investigation has since been launched by police.
In an update on Twitter, the superintendent wrote that two other children had also been taken into emergency police protection last night, although it is understood this was in an unrelated incident.
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