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Houston TX Hours-old baby found covered in ants
Good Samaritans discovered a newborn baby in the bushes early Thursday at an apartment complex in northwest Harris County.
“Bro…that’s crazy. Somebody left their baby out here…you gotta call 911, bro,” John Baldwin said as he recorded the moments after the discovery:He was among two men walking to work around 5 a.m. at the complex off Red Oak Drive.
“It’s like they just left the baby out there like it was trash,” said Baldwin.
Another passerby first heard the baby’s muffled cries.
“I heard like a baby, like a cat cry, like, meow…”, said eyewitness Albert Peterson. He said he yelled for his wife to call 911 as he ran to find something to get the baby warm and clean.
He told Eyewitness News the newborn was covered in afterbirth and insects. “I saw ants and stuff all over. I picked her up, cleaned her off, put her in a sheet and took her in my house,” he said.
Authorities said the newborn was less than an hour old, full-term and healthy with the umbilical cord still attached. Investigators were able to track down the woman they believe to be the mother at a nearby apartment.
Detectives said if it were not for the Good Samaritans, the baby girl might not have survived.
“I just did my job. That’s what God wanted me to do,” said Baldwin.
The mother has been detained and is undergoing a psychological and medical evaluation. As things stand, no one has been arrested or charged, though the investigation is still underway.
Child Protective Services said they will try to place the infant with a relative or close family friend, at least temporarily. If none can be found, the baby could eventually be placed up for adoption.
Child Protective Services will hold a hearing on Friday to request temporary custody of the baby.
There is a Texas law that allows new parents, under certain conditions, to give up their child. The Safe Haven or Baby Moses law gives parents who are unable to care for their child the right to leave the child somewhere like a fire station or hospital without prosecution.
Anybody who would like to offer assistance should visit adoptchildren.orgor call Marty Votaw at 832-454-4163.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/hours-old-baby-found-covered-in-ants/2293111/
New York Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Death of Newborn Found in Garbage
A New York City woman accused of leaving her newborn to die in the trash pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.
Nausheen Rahman, 28, allegedly cut the umbilical cord of her baby daughter, who was still breathing, placed her in a plastic bag, and threw her in a garbage can outside her Staten Island residence on March 11, according to the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office and a criminal complaint.
Rahman entered her not-guilty plea on a three-count grand jury indictment before State Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Rooney in Staten Island. Rooney ordered Rahman held without bail.
A message left Friday with Rahman’s attorney, Michael Robert Rosas, was not returned. After Rahman’s arraignment in March on the criminal complaint, at which she did not enter a plea, Rosas told NBC News they would conduct their own investigation and see where it leads.
Nausheen Rahman, 28, allegedly cut the umbilical cord of her baby daughter, who was still breathing, placed her in a plastic bag, and threw her in a garbage can outside her Staten Island residence March 11, according to the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office and a criminal complaint.
Rahman entered her not-guilty plea on a three-count grand jury indictment before State Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Rooney in Staten Island. Rooney ordered Rahman held without bail.
A message left Friday with Rahman’s attorney, Michael Robert Rosas, was not returned. After Rahman’s arraignment in March on the criminal complaint, at which she did not enter a plea, Rosas told NBC News they would conduct their own investigation and see where it leads.
According to prosecutors, Rahman allegedly gave birth to her daughter inside her Staten Island home. Later, her parents took her to Staten Island University Hospital – North for vaginal bleeding, prosecutors said. At first, Rahman allegedly denied having a baby, but later admitted to giving birth and disposing of her daughter who was alive, prosecutors said.
“I want to remind the public that under the state’s Safe Haven law, a baby up to 30 days old can be left with any responsible person at a hospital, police precinct or firehouse,” Staten Island District Attorney Michael E. McMahon said in a statement.
If convicted, Rahman faces 25 years to life in prison.
Mother Charged With Throwing Newborn Baby With Umbilical Still Attached From Chicago High-RIse
A 19-year-old woman charged with murdering her newborn daughter by dropping the infant out the window of an Chicago high-rise building was ordered held without bail Saturday.
Mubashra Uddin, facing a first-degree murder charge, was not in court because she was hospitalized. The infant, now being called Baby Jane Uddin in police reports, landed in a grassy parkway with her umbilical cord still attached late Wednesday night.
The Cook County Medical Center ruled the infant’s death a homicide from blunt force trauma. Prosecutors said the girl suffered complex skull fractures, a fractured spine, a broken left shoulder, fractured left and right ribs and a lacerated aorta, lacerated liver and lacerated bowel and suffered from blood in the abdomen.
Prosecutors said Uddin, a student at DeVry University, hid her pregnancy from her family because she knew her Pakistani Muslim parents would not approve, the Chicago Tribune reported, and covered up her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes.
Uddin went into labor Wednesday evening in the apartment where the teen lives with her family. Prosecutors said Uddin gave birth around 11:20 p.m. to a full-term, 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl in the bedroom she shared with her younger sister.
When Uddin heard her mother coming down the hallway, prosecutors said she panicked and dropped the girl out the window. A man visiting his girlfriend at the building in the 800 block of W. Eastwood Avenue in Uptown spotted the newborn baby in the grass, thinking it was a doll.
The baby was still apparently breathing when brought to Weiss Memorial Hospital, mere blocks away from the high rise building where Uddin lived with her family. The infant died around 12:25 a.m. Thursday.
Police located Uddin from talking to neighbors who told them the teen may be pregnant. Prosecutors said police found blood in the bedroom and bathroom of the family’s apartment, as well as bloody sheets and bloody scissors, the paper said.
Uddin is due in Cook County Violence Court on Monday.
via: http://patch.com/illinois/lakeview/teen-mom-hid-pregnancy-secretly-gave-birth-bedroom-prosecutors