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.”
K, my apologies to you.
But can a 14 anywhere in the country legally consent to sex?
Someone needs to ensure that the baby’s mom is not in any danger from whomever got her pregnant.
Pretty convenient that the pre school teacher had oxygen and an infant sized mask with her in the diner.
On another note, its awful to think of a teen girl delivering a baby on her own. I read the books by Jaycee Dugard and Amanda Berry delivering alone. Bless them.
That’s tough. If the young mom bonded at all with her baby in utero, she must be torn up herself.
Ugh. Can’t imagine.
Charge the mother?
She was picked up by the cops a few days later.
5 times…
2 to tango....
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to use that on my costly daughter(s)
I heard a comedian who has grandchildren say that grandchildren are God’s reward for you for not killing your kids when they were teens.
Some people might say it’s most important to make sure she has the jab first, and see if she voted absentee for Biden.
We dont know if the young girl was raped by someone, or was experimenting with sex, or worse. Could have been a sex slave or a forced child bride, etc.. Hope for the best all around. Young women at least very bravely endured it all and did not choose death for her child, but there’s a rat in there somewhere...
Then, by your logic, this mother should also burn in hell?
Where are the parents of the 14 year old??
I know someone that actually happened to. He went home for Thanksgiving Break in college, and his parents had moved without telling him. He had to go back and spend Thanksgiving in the empty dorm. His patents later claimed they just forgot.
Was Hunter Biden in New Jersey 9 months ago?
So who is investigating the rape of the 14yr old?
“In Florida we Fire Stations, Churches, and hospitals. No questions asked.”
I think that’s true in my state. Good policy.
You make my case for me this is part of the problem men/Boys are taught that they have no responsibilities to the children they sire. They owe nothing and can simple walk away an what ever happens to the child is none of their responsibility. Thats what is wrong with todays culture to many men and boys think that. As far as the girl it seems to me she at least made a considerable effort to try and do what was best for the child. She took responsibility and acted bravely especially when you consider the mental and physical state she was in at the time. The child is as much the fathers as it is the mothers, but the easier thing to do is just walk or run away an that is the cowardly act that I am condemning.
I have no problem with this. She knew she couldn’t handle whatever happened, and put the baby in the arms of someone who looked like they could.
How often do we read about girls leaving them in a dumpster to die?
Only 14. Hope she gets help and not prosecution.
Police found her.
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