An Amber Alert was deactivated after Phoenix Police Department detectives safely recovered a baby at a west Phoenix Apartment. The 24-year-old mother, Rosa Santana, was arrested for child abuse and booked into Maricopa County jail.
According to the Phoenix Police Department, on July 12, 2023, at about 11:40 a.m. officers responded to a hospital near 24th Street and Roosevelt Street for a missing child call. Officers learned that Santana placed her newborn son into a duffle bag and left the hospital against medical advice.
The newborn victim was actively receiving medical treatment at the hospital and without it, the victim’s condition could be life threatening.
Detectives began to investigate active leads that led them to an apartment complex located near 71st Avenue and Indian School Road. Baby Santana was safely recovered from an apartment and taken back to the hospital to continue his medical treatments.
Santana was also located in that apartment and booked into jail for felony child abuse charges.