Newborn Girl Found Wrapped In Plastic
A mail carrier found a newborn baby wrapped in plastic at an abandoned house Saturday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A mail carrier found a newborn baby wrapped in plastic at an abandoned house Saturday.
The baby girl was found on the front porch of the home on Marble Drive at about 10 a.m.
According to the U.S. Postal Service, the letter carrier, Michael Herron, was walking by the home, heard a noise and saw a plastic bag that was moving. Authorities said Herron saw the child, went to a neighboring home and called police and paramedics.
“I wish whoever this baby belonged to would have dropped it off at a hospital or to a fire department because the baby was in the direct sun and who knows how long she’d been there,“ Herron said.
Officials said the baby appeared to be several hours old. The baby’s umbilical cord and was reportedly in good shape, without complications.
Investigators with Franklin County Children Services said they are hoping that relatives will come forward and identify the infant’s mother.
The infant was taken to Children’s Hospital in stable condition.
Fire officials said the vacant home is less than half a mile from the a fire station, where the mother could have left the baby without question.
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K and HealthAdvocate…run for congress…both of you! PLEASE!!!
In response to post by (K): I am glad to see your response to this issue. I had become very weary of all the ‘blame and accuse’ comments. Many valid points are included and many questions that need answers. We, as a community, and the young women facing this situation need resolution, need clear guidance on what they can do; Channel 4 could do a great community service to research this in-depth and present an educational news segment; The Columbus Dispatch could assist in putting accurate information out also. It would help to have public service announcements on radio, tv, billboards, fliers, etc.. with clear instructions.
Just another good lesson to take notice our surroundings at work, home and neighborhood. If “gut instinct” tells you something is amiss…most likely, it is.
Yes, it is possible for a girl/woman to slip by with out anyone noticing a pregnancy. We all know it. We do not take notice of the secrets of our students, co-workers, neighbors and family if we do not want to see.
Why do we hear of the Safe Haven law only when there is a tragedy or near tragedy? And when we do hear about it, the description is vague. This happened in our community. Should the news flash a list of specific Safe Haven places in our community or how to go about this Safe Haven procedure anonymously.
I can imagine a pregnant woman or child that either had no idea about Safe Haven or how to get to such a place or possibly prevented from getting to one.
I wonder where she delivered? Did she survive it without beneft of a midwife, hospital or even a witness? (Someone cleaned up afterwards.) Did someone other than the mother dump the baby? Is the mother even aware the baby survived delivery? Could that be why there is no missing person/child report connected?
For Safe Haven to be effective in preventing tragedy, it has to be absolutely anonymous. i.e. “...Hand over the child with no “paper work” or investigation other than the child’s physical condition…“ Also, any woman in labor should be able to show up at a hospital and deliver under “Jane Doe” with no questions, outside the necessary vital medical statistics, if she has stated that she is leaving the baby in the hands of the medical worker. I wonder if hospital procedures and medical ethics can be reconciled in order to respect such a radical Safe Haven law.
Again,I wonder what has been the reaction of law/fire/medical employee when faced with a person leaving a baby in his her care under Safe Haven.
Is it possible to abandon anything today, let alone a child, anonymously? Is that Safe Haven rule always respected?
I read where a newborn was left with a school nurse in Ohio. Does a school nurse “count” in this situation…the police investigated that one…
So much discussion…so little resolution.
Tinks - how would you be able to tell who got these women pregnant? I would be surprised if they knew for sure who the biological father is.
If we could get people to go to a free sterilization clinic, that would be awesome. But we seem to be a society that is more concerned with controlling animal population than human population.
Who would decide who has to get their tubes tied? And since some men love to have more than one partner, why don’t we give them a vasectomy—-kind of like double insurance—-you’re covered just in case. It sounds good but if we let government decide who can have kids and who can’t, what will be the next thing the government takes over? The gov has their hands in our business too much as it is and are trying to get even more control over us.
I’ve always said that at least half the women that have children shouldn’t.They do it for all the wrong reasons and then taxpayers/society is burdened with their care.Due to their neglet and lack of love they end up acting out,causing problems in school and then head off to prison.
Abortion shouldn’t be stigmatized!It should be applauded.
Im with u Anonymous. & u r right about who would administer the test. I think that there are cultural differences on how children are raised as well, so it would be hard to factor all these in. But I am all for paying taxes towards tube-tying, it would most likely decrease the requests for benefits.
Federally-funded abortions? We do not need any more tax dollars going towards programs that reward the irresponsible for having kids they cannot care for. But if it would be cheaper than jail/foster homes etc if we did this. Tell them ‘free abortion if you get your tubes tied’. No more babies from this one.
Maumi, I believe you’re somewhere on the right track except that I don’t agree with your statement about passing a parenting class/test. I believe I have a good reason for saying this…e.g. Who would administer the test FCCS? WOW-talk about a helluva mistake there!! There is another way - I just don’t know what it is! For now yours may be the only viable solution, but there must be another one that neither of us is thinking of at the moment….... Personally, I think the Madonnas, the Angelinia Jolies, etc. should be rescuing THESE babies, not the ones in Rowanda or Nigeria or wherever…but I certainly believe that these are the mothers who can and will provide for these young’uns in a loving affordable environment even more so than adoption. But I am 100% with you on your tube-tying concept!
I am with u CHICO. Except I think that if a woman has 2 children and seems to show no signs of improving her life, (still on government assistance) than she should be required to get her tubes tied. I also feel that all parents should have to pass a parenting class/test in order to have the privledge of raising a child.
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