The alleged parents of abandoned baby Angelica-Leslie have three young children who are now in a temporary foster home, a family service official says.
Peter Ringrose, the executive director of Family and Children Services of Waterloo Region, says two girls and a boy under the age of six were found in the Kitchener couple's home.
The children were scheduled to undergo a routine medical examination on Friday afternoon.
"The initial impression was that the children seem to be OK," Ringrose told CTV.ca.
The siblings were found Wednesday night when their parents were arrested and charged in the abandonment of Angelica-Leslie in late January.
The children were told they were removed from their home because there was "nobody at home to look after them," Ringrose said.
Toronto police announced Thursday they had arrested the biological parents of Angelica-Leslie. The suspects, both 30, have been charged with abandoning a child, failing to provide the necessities of life, assault causing bodily harm and criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
Their names have not been released in order to protect the child's real name. Children's aid workers nicknamed her Angelica-Leslie because her face looks "like an angel" and she was found on Leslie Street.
Doctors said the infant was about eight months old when a shopper found her in the cold stairwell of a plaza in North York. The temperature that day was -14 C.
More than 80 families have since come forward offering to adopt the baby.
