Posted on 08/03/2023 5:57:33 PM PDT by gitmo
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A one-day-old baby boy was found abandoned outside a Texas church for nearly 20 hours during the recent intense heat wave that saw temperatures soar far beyond triple digits.
San Antonio police say a man and a woman were seen on camera about 1 a.m. on July 17 carrying a basket into the parking lot of Grissom Road Church, according to a Crime Stoppers report on Wednesday.
The two then placed the basket by the back door of the church and left on foot. It wasn't until about 8:50 p.m. when a bicyclist noticed something "suspicious" under the awning, police told FOX Weather.
San Antonio police say a man and a woman were seen on camera about 1 a.m. on July 17 carrying a basket into the parking lot of Grissom Road Church, according to a Crime Stoppers report on Wednesday.
When he looked near the basket, he told police he noticed a baby’s leg sticking out with a black jacket over the basket. As he moved the jacket, that's when he saw the baby inside.
The high temperature for the day was 110 degrees, police said. Yet despite the life-threatening temperatures, the newborn was not in distress and still had the umbilical cord attached to him, police said.
A note was found left at the scene along with the baby, investigators said. Texas Child Protective Services was later notified.
Back in June, Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 780 that expands the state's "Baby Moses" law to provide greater accessibility to families in crisis by allowing the use of "baby boxes" to surrender a newborn to an emergency infant care provider.
The inclusion of the devices as an option to surrender a child will take effect Sept. 1.
Bums.
Triple digits would be up to 999 degrees, so that's quite a heat wave, even for Texas.
Amen.
Good point.
I have two adopted sons. We have arranged for them both to know their birth mothers and one of them knows his birth father. They spend time with their birth-families, sometimes a couple weeks at a time.
I cannot fathom someone doing what these people did.
The idiots should have called someone to say there was a baby there.
“That’s a baby that wants to live. May he have a long, happy and successful life, despite the way it started.”
Miracles happen - despite everyone’s best intentions. ;)
How cruel! But, at least the parents didn’t murder the child outright and God kept his hand on the child in the intense heat. I hope a loving Godly couple adopt the child and he/she lives a long and happy life!
The “parents” were right; they are not ready to take care of a Baby. They passed one test. by allowing the child to live, but they failed the follow up test, by allowing the child to
stay there out in the open helpless and neglected, where some animal could have attacked the child.
You don’t even treat a puppy or a kitten like that.
Not if you have a soul.
Thank God that bicyclist just happened to be there and was curious enough to find out what is was he was seeing.
A couple of years ago in Hobbs, New Mexico a lady dumped her newborn baby into a trash bin. Fortunately for the baby some dumpster divers came along and discovered the baby. There was surveillance video available, and the police nabbed her.
People who don’t know how the surrender law works. They need more PSA’s on how and where to drop the babies off.
TBH, with genealogical DNA tracing, it’s unlikely any surrenering parent could remain truly anonymous except maybe illegal or trafficked women from a foreign country.
Just me being picky. It’s as though nobody thinks about anything they’ve written before publishing it.
the same people who have no qualms about smashing the head in of that same baby right after it’s born and calling that “an abortion”.
Amen and amen
Thank God the police got to the baby before the liberal Democrats did.
“Who could do something like that?”
It’s a damn sight better than aborting it, though. Still, they should have taken the baby to a fire station, as then it could have received immediate care from EMTs or paramedics.
As a former longtime newspaper editor, I’m convinced they just don’t hire editors anymore, which is a pity. I cringe a lot these days. :)
My suspicion is that they thought someone would be at the church during the day and would find the baby much earlier.
Credit to them for not aborting and for choosing a church for finding a good home.
I cannot fathom how hard it is to give up a child they loved enough to try to somehow provide a good future for him. I am on the side of cutting them slack because of likely immaturity and just not thinking their plan through carefully.
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