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Posted on 06/14/2006 12:34:00 AM PDT by beaversmom
The search for what authorities feared was a desperate mother and newborn in grave medical danger was called off yesterday after police located the woman whose placenta was found in a Wellesley College pond.
Mom and baby are both healthy, police said.
“No one was ever at any time in any danger at all. After completing the investigation, we are sure of that,” said Wellesley police spokeswoman officer Marie Cleary. “The baby was never in any kind of jeopardy.”
The Wellesley mom gave birth “a number of months” ago and she and her husband preserved the placenta on their own, said Deputy Police Chief William Brooks. “It’s my understanding that, down the road, it can be used in the (medical) treatment of the child.”
When the couple decided to discard the placenta, “They dropped it in the edge of the pond,” he said. After the discovery late Sunday, authorities drained the pond to search the floor.
“We had to go on the premise that perhaps something bad had happened,” Brooks said. He would not say how the couple was identified, but said the investigation included communication with the Wellesley College community, including faculty and alumnae. Still, until contacted yesterday around noon, the couple “were unaware all this was going on,” he said.
Although the mother broke a criminal statute regarding the dumping of human tissues, no charges will be filed, police said.
The alarming discovery came after several recent discoveries of infants who were abandoned at birth. “We all thought the worst,” one Norfolk County official said.
Could have at least offered it to Tom Cruise first.
Don't tell Tom Cruise about this.
So, will it be known as Placenta Pond in the future?
Why dispose of it in the pond?
Odd isn't it?
Why not put it down the garbedge disposal?
Doesn't everybody drop their placentas into ponds?
I think they were testing it as fish bait.
Just wondering. :-)
The couple must be weird. First of all why save the placenta? Secondly...disposing of it in a public arena...not a waste recepticle of ANY sort...just doesn't make sense. What did they do?...walk around with it in a zip lock bag until the urge to toss it occurred? I am flummoxed.
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I wonder will they be charged with improper disposal of medical waste?
Sounds weird, until you imagine Tom Cruise eating one.
Look for this item in the next edition of Alumnae News.
I don't know. I never had a frozen placenta in my freezer. The hospital disposed of it.
It is a weird story that's for sure.
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