Police was tipped about the incident after some people saw a “small hand poking out of a big suitcase” in a bus.
The 11-year-old boy was stuffed inside the suitcase by the woman named Natasha Vitoriano Souto's who claims the teenager asked her to adopt him. She also claimed the “abandoned” boy told her he had been “physically abused”.
“I was going to take him to my house. I found him in the street in Botafogo near the traffic lights. He asked me for the love of God, adopt me please,” she was quoted in a DailyMail report.
“His mother is dependent on drugs. He was adopted for a year with a family and they abandoned on the street as if he was nothing,” she added.
The report says that child has now been placed into the care of the Guardianship Council.
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