Police in Jeddah are questioning a man believed to be the father of a baby girl found living with two unrelated persons during police raids across the city on Tuesday. The discovery was made at a house in the Al-Jami'a district of the city where an Indonesian woman residing in the Kingdom illegally and a man of the same nationality were found with a one and half month old child of “Arab appearance”. Saudi Gazette reported on Wednesday that the baby girl was found seemingly hidden beneath a pile of clothes, and although the couple initially denied any knowledge of the child, the woman later told police that she had been left in her care shortly after birth by an Arab woman who paid her 300 riyals a month and told her she did not want anyone to know about the baby's existence. The Indonesian woman also told investigators that she was not aware she was breaking any laws. The suspected father of the child told investigators on Wednesday that when he separated from his foreign wife and she was sent back to her home country, he decided to place their child in the care of the woman in return for monthly payments. Police said they are continuing their investigations into the case.
