Posted on 04/28/2003 9:50:44 AM PDT by Coleus
Newborn rescued from trash can
| Monday, April 28, 2003 |
A newborn girl is in good condition after she was found wrapped in two plastic bags and left in the bottom of a Sherman Avenue trash can.
Three people walking down Sherman Avenue around 1 a.m. Sunday found the baby after following what they thought were noises made by a cat. City and county police responded, and an ambulance took the child to Passaic General Hospital. Police also contacted officials at the state Division of Youth and Family Services, which will determine where the baby stays until she is adopted or placed in foster care.
Officials say they have no suspects, but that they believe it could be a light-skinned, black-haired girl, about 16 years old, seen lingering around the trash can later Sunday.
Police officials said they intend to press severe charges.
"I'm leaning towards attempted homicide," said Passaic Police Detective Roy Bordamonte. "I don't think she had any remorse. She wrapped the baby up in two plastic bags, threw her in the trash and left her for dead."
Bordamonte said he believes the child, whom he refers to as "Baby Dell," was delivered at 148 Myrtle Ave., an empty blue house with a "For Sale" sign posted near the stairs. A trail of blood can still be seen connecting the gravel driveway there to the trash can in which she was found, her umbilical cord still attached.
The Safe Haven Infant Protection Act, adopted by state officials in 2000, allows mothers to leave unwanted children younger than 30 days at hospital emergency room or police station without being prosecuted for abandonment.
Jamir Scott, who lives with his family at Sherman Street and Myrtle Avenue, had gone to a nearby deli around midnight Saturday. When he came back, two men asked what he thought the noises were coming from a tipped-over trash can near his apartment building.
"I dragged the bag out, and suddenly, I became petrified, shocked," he said sitting in his apartment living room Sunday afternoon. He said he remembers thinking "Oh my God, this is really a baby in here," and called to his wife, LaTasha.
"I never ran down the stairs so fast in my life," LaTasha Scott said. After they called the police, the Scotts said the baby's cries seemed to be slowing down and losing strength, and when Jamir Scott ripped open the plastic bag, "the baby looked into my husband's eyes, like 'thank you,'" LaTasha Scott said. She calls the child "Baby Hope."
Before they could pick her up, police arrived, and the baby was taken to the hospital.
"It was so fast. It was so damn fast," LaTasha Scott said. "It was just emotions." Later, she said, she couldn't sleep and spent the night staring out the window at the trash can.
"I was just praying," said Jamir Scott. "I was thinking about going to the hospital." Both said they spent most of Sunday wondering how the baby was.
"Something like this makes everything all so small," LaTasha Scott said.
Passaic police request that anyone with information about who might have abandoned the baby call the department at (973) 365-3922.
Reach Whitney Kvasager at (973) 569-7164 or Kvasager@northjersey.com
Teenagers find fetus in bag in Allentown parking lot
In NJ, they have a The Safe Haven Infant Protection Act where a girl can leave her baby at any hospital with NO questions asked. The problem is that they have to know about it. Is it part of the NJ Family Life Curriculum in the Elementary Schools, is it taught in High School Health Class are there posters hanging up in schools, is there information at various social service and immigration agencies? I doubt it.
Do you know if this information is prominently posted at all junior and senior high schools? If so, and the girl ignored it, then they should prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.
How coincidental that I watched a program on the Discovery Channel last night, entitled Mary, Mother of Jesus. They used scripture and archaeological research, to debunk the beautiful image we have of Mary. Instead, they portray her as little more than a child herself, when Jesus was borm. Mercifully, she didn't dump her baby in the trash pit.
Every day in every way we become more like the Roman Empire. Abortion and euthanasia have been joined by outright infanticide in our pantheon of pagan "rights"; I fully expect to see televised gladitorial combat to the death within my lifetime. A culture with no respect for life will simply consider it the ultimate form of "reality TV".
O holy and immaculate Virgin,
I know not with what praise to extol thee,
since thou didst bear in thy womb
the very One Whom the Heavens cannot contain.
Rejoice, O Virgin Mary; Rejoice a thousand times!
St. Louis Mary de Montfort, pray for us.
Okay, then how is the technique of blood transfusion not "cannibalism"? For that matter, what about the "necrophiliac" practice of harvesting organs from the dead and implanting them in people? Oh, the horror!
Good Lord, you people scare me...
Do rooms filled with row after row of babies in stacis -- grown like plants for the purpose of having their little organs removed -- scare you as much as those who oppose that nightmare?
Ooh, did I hurt your feelings by taking your superstitions to their logical conclusion? Sorry!
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