and the "father?"
Posted on 05/21/2021 12:03:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
A “desperate” teenager walked into a restaurant, handed her newborn baby to a Good Samaritan and then walked out, in an incident that was captured on surveillance video in Jersey City, N.J.
The girl, 14, entered the El Patron restaurant and approached the counter with a newborn baby girl in her arms on Wednesday afternoon, surveillance footage shows. She claimed that she’d found the girl and needed help.
“This lady comes in looking very desperate, holding a brand new (newborn) child, you can even tell,” restaurant owner Frankie Aguilar told NBC4. “She looks at me in the eye, I look at her and she has these eyes of terror and despair.”
Alease Scott, who was eating lunch at the restaurant with her boyfriend, did not hesitate when she saw the baby.
“I said, ‘Do you mind if I check the baby’s vitals?'” she told ABC7. “She readily handed the baby over to me, so my focus went right onto the baby.”
Scott noticed that the baby girl still had part of the umbilical cord attached, and her ears and hair were covered in matter from the birthing process.
“It wasn’t cleaned off very properly,” she said.
Scott then looked at the teenager and noted a streak of dried blood on her leg.
“I immediately said, ‘Oh my God, this is the baby’s mom,'” Scott told NBC4. “But I was more focused on making sure the baby was breathing, so as I looked down at the baby she was gone.”
“It seemed that she was the mother,” Aguilar said. “That’s the thing that was the most heartbreaking.”
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Aguilar called 911 while Scott, who is a former therapist and pre-school teacher, provided some first aid to the minutes-old baby.
“I administered oxygen to the baby. Within a couple of seconds of her getting oxygen, we got the most beautiful cry that you’ve ever heard. Her little feet started moving,” Scott said.
“She was trying to suckle on the oxygen mask, so we knew she was OK after that.”
Police arrived a short time later and took the newborn to hospital. They also tracked down the mother and brought her to the hospital for treatment. They say she is 14 years old.
Mom and baby are both doing well, and the girl is expected to be put up for adoption.
No charges have been brought against the mother to date.
Police used the occasion to remind New Jersey residents about the state’s Safe Haven law, which allows parents and guardians to drop an unwanted newborn off at a hospital, police station or fire hall within the first 30 days of the child’s life.
Aguilar says he’s thankful that the girl turned to his family-owned business for help in her time of need.
“Hopefully, we as a society become better at just helping one another, especially after COVID,” he said.
Scott says she’s just glad that her CPR training came in handy. She said she’d love to see the little girl again, and her heart goes out to the mother.
“I’m just so happy I was there to help because she just was desperate and didn’t know what to do,” Scott said.
“She was so young.”
“There is no place in HELL hot enough for the father as far as I am concerned.”
Did I miss the part that said she was raped? The father could have been her age or even younger.
A customer at a baby back ribs joint tossed her newborn in the restroom trash. I can’t eat baby back ribs anymore.
The baby from the article is lucky the person she was handed to didn’t do something horrible. We have baby drop offs at fire stations and hospitals for a reason.
In Florida we Fire Stations, Churches, and hospitals. No questions asked.
Rodney Dangerfield
And you point is? I stand by my words: There is no place in HELL hot enough for the father as far as I am concerned. But then I grew up in a different time when it was drummed into (by my Father, Coach and at least one other male teacher) us that it was just as much our responsibility as the girls
“We have baby drop offs at fire stations and hospitals for a reason.”
Some states had to retroactively define the age limit because parents were dropping off tweeners and early teens.
AMEN
A Catholic Church near me had a 150 year tradition of taking in newborns, who could be left in a “baby box” inside the vestibule. At one point in the early 20th century, they had an orphanage with 1000 children in it
“I thought to myself, “self, who would abandon their baby?””
As bad as that may be, there are certainly WORSE parents, such as the ones who keep the baby, only to send it public schools.
And many are known to kill their baby before birth.
Just scrolled through the replies so far.
Why is everyone assuming that the 14 YO had consensual sex?
I hope to God someone is investigating to make sure she hasn’t been/isn’t being abused.
God Bless this young woman. Her heart is Brave and Huge!
If she’s doing whatever she wants and trying to live consequence-free
and the "father?"
That’s the problem with just scrolling through the replies and not actually reading them before making a reply. Not everyone is assuming that.
Thank God the child is not in a trash bin. Now if she is adopted, she has a chance for a very good life. Thank you mother for doing the right thing.
I don’t know how to comment upon this article (not enough info) other than to say, “Praise God the baby lived and is being cared for and that poor little mother was found and receiving care as well.”. B t every story has a happy ending. It is clear this one did not begin well, but I hope it ends well for everyone involved.
Point me a post other than mine that was concerned for the well-being of the mother.
Then I guess the girl needs to go to hell along with nthe guy...right? Here something which may be news to you. Girls are and always have been as horny as guys but before the became as we see it today culture forbade them to do "it" before marriage or at least engagement. Back in the day girls who let a guy do that were branded pig, sluts and worse while the guys were branded as heroes. Today girls not only "hook up" whenever they want they are many times the aggressors. I'm old fashioned and was raised when you were so my feelings haven't changed. If there was no rape then it's the girls responsibility to stop it if she wants. If she doesn't then she has nothing to complain about and the guy certainly did nothing wrong if he himself is a minor.
But every story does not have a happy ending.....(auto correct...whatcha gonna do?).....
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