Baby is found abandoned in cardboard box on NYE with note: ”Please help me, my parents don’t have food or money to raise me”
‘Please help me, my parents don’t have food or money to raise me’: Baby is found abandoned in cardboard box in Alaska on a frigid New Year’s Eve with a note begging for ‘a loving family
When Roxy Lane heard a distinct newborn cry by a row of letterboxes near her home at about 2pm on New Year’s Eve – she thought she must have been hearing things.
But she wasn’t. She discovered an infant swathed in blankets in a cardboard box in Alaska, where the temperatures were below zero, with a wind-chill of 24C below.
The baby was taken by emergency services to a local hospital and was “found to be in good health” according to state troopers, the New York Post reported.
She posted a video of the child, whose mother called him Teshawn, and the note on her Facebook page.
‘Please help me!!!’ the note said. ‘My parents and grandparents don’t have food or money to raise me. They NEVER wanted to do this to me.’
‘Please take me and find me a LOVING FAMILY. My parents are begging whoever finds me. My name is Teshawn.’
The infant had entered the world earlier that day around 6am, his mother wrote in her note.
‘I was born 12 weeks premature. My mom was 28 weeks when she had me,’ the note read. ‘My parents lived on Cormorant Street. My mom is so sad to do this.’
Although the she is grateful Teshawn was found in good health, Lane is asking her neighbors to help locate his mother.
Based on her note, she said she doubts the family could have afforded to take the woman to the hospital and worries she may be in need of medical care.
Lane said she has spent a lot of time processing the situation and trying to understand why someone who abandoned their child outside.
‘Today I saved a baby and I’ll probably think about Teshawn for the rest of my life,’ she wrote.
‘I’ve been processing my feelings all day and running through all the different scenarios and reasons, with my bf and family, as to why something like this could have happened.’
She suggested Teshawn’s parents may have been young and unaware of Alaska’s Safe Haven Law, which allows parents to give up their unwanted children at safe places.
‘There is always a safer, humane choice to surrender a baby and you will not get in trouble or even have to answer any difficult questions. Take the baby to a fire station, or church, or hospital and they will take care of them,’ she wrote.
However, despite the woman making a ‘terrible decision,’ Lane hopes ‘the mother gets the help she might need’.
Source:
dailymail.co.uk, kidspot.com.au/
