WASHINGTON (TND) — Authorities in Georgia arrested the mom of “Baby India” almost 4 years after the new child was discovered alive stuffed inside a plastic bag within the woods.

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office on Friday stated they spent hundreds of hours and “left no stone unturned” into within the investigation.

Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Freeman stated superior DNA examined linked them to the infant’s organic father led them to 40-year-old Karima Jiwani, who’s the toddler’s organic mom.

This has been — virtually to the date — a four-year investigation,” Freeman said during a news conference. “Four years in the past, we stood on this very room, behind this very podium, and we requested to your assist as a result of we wished to know who might do one thing so incredulous.”

Now, Freedman said Jiwani is facing criminal intent to commit murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, aggravated assault, reckless abandonment, as well as other charges.

How a parent — and I happen to be one, too, — can do such a callous thing is both incomprehensible to all of us and it’s infuriating,” he stated. “I’m dumbfounded by any reasoning that could be there and how someone could have the ability to leave their own child to die.”

He added that “little can explain how this happened and no motive can justify the decision.”

Freeman went on to say that beneath Georgia’s “Safe Place for Newborns Act,” a mom can drop off their new child child as much as 30 days after giving start to a hospital, fireplace station or police division with out going through prison fees. He stated it baffles him why Jiwani did not selected to verify her child was protected.

In this case, Miss. Jiwani made no effort to go away this youngster not solely beneath Safe Harbor legislation, however anywhere this youngster might be discovered. This youngster was tied up in a plastic bag and thrown into the woods,” Freeman said, becoming emotional like a bag of trash. “I am unable to perceive that. I actually want I might. I wrestle however I do not know how one can perceive that. It actually was one of many saddest issues I’ve ever seen.”

Freeman stated the infant was found alongside a wooded strip of land in Cumming, Georgia on June 6, 2019 — simply earlier than a thunderstorm hit the world. The toddler appeared to have been dumped on prime of a pile of leaves and sticks.

When the case was first made public, he described the invention of as “divine intervention” and said he believes that now more than ever.

I truly believe that still this day,” Freeman said during the conference. “If you look at everything that had to happen for this little girl to survive — for alert people to hear a sound in the woods that they thought was a wild animal, but two teenage girls who couldn’t let it go because they thought it sounded like a baby crying, to a dad that convinced to go out in the middle of the night to check out on a weird sound in the middle of the woods to discover (the baby).”

Investigators said they believe Jiwani gave birth to the baby inside of a vehicle, then drove “for a significant period of time.” At some point, she allegedly wrapped the newborn in a plastic bag and dumped her in a wooded area.

It’s truly one of the saddest things I have ever seen,” Freeman stated, including that he believes Jiwani went “to extremes” to hide her being pregnant.

The child’s actual title is being hid to guard her identification.

Freeman stated the kid, who’s now 4 years outdated, is prospering and “happy and healthy.”

WANF-TV reported that Jiwani’s protection legal professional, E. Jay Abt, requested the choose to grant bond, arguing that she has no prison historical past and has three different kids at dwelling.

The media outlet famous that District Attorney Penny Pen requested the choose to disclaim bond, citing a scarcity of proof that Jiwani suffered from postpartum melancholy and considerations over witness intimidation.

Forsyth County Judge Keisha Martin Chambless denied bond, citing considerations that Jiwani posed a danger of leaving the court docket’s jurisdiction and her shut entry to members of the family who might be witnesses within the case.

Freedman stated the case is pending prosecution.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: WKRC contributed to this report.