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.”
“The father could have been her age or even younger.”
Or a perv family member.
Thank you for the update. Did they say if she was in a bad situation (e.g. trafficked, abused, etc.)? I hope she’s alright and thankful the little baby is being cared for as well.
When I came home for my first college break, I saw a For Sale sign in the front yard.
Mother told me the move was short-notice and with four kids in the home (two in High School, two in Middle School), she was distracted and forgot to tell me.
Funny, as I could see that happening (dad already moved to the new job and my mother was selling the home, packing and getting my sisters ready for the move—sisters. . . drama galore.
She did what was right for the infant.
Reference comment about boys, please consider this: women have all the power, they can decide to murder their baby and he has no say. . .and maybe after being told they are irrelevant, no say so about the baby, maybe they are that way because they are marginalized and after a life of being told “my body my choice and you have no say so,” they get with the program.
Not excusing everything, but I think it is a complex issue.
Sadly, no updates to the article, other than: “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.”
Hopefully she’s getting the care needed. While I recognize that kids sometimes make really bad mistakes, the worry is that things are happening against her will. I just hope she ends up alright.
You and me both.
Prayers.
In my eyes just stepping forward and stating that you are the father and offering to do what you can is the right thing. Even if you are denied your rights you have at least step forward and excepted your responsibility. That makes you more of a man then those who just wash their penis and walk away.
“Poor mother. Life is hard. But she didn’t kill her child. May God bless her all the days of her life. Amen.”
And the child.
biblically, it does exist
but i would guess you’d have to be quite bad for them to consider it
Amen and AMEN
Biblical and beautiful. I pray for extraordinary things for mother and child.
Do you have some information about the father that is not presented in this piece? Otherwise, you are just making a lot of assumptions.
Considering you words those of others and the general state of society I say I am near the mark if not dead on.
I for one, will not condemn this young girl. She knows the value of life no matter her ciecumstances.
God bless this brave young mother who did what was best for her child under the circumstances.
Let me guess the ethnicity.
There is only one way to stop this cycle.
Cut off the funds.
And just WHAT would you have the father do? I repeat, there was NO RAPE!! The girl consented and no one claims the father was an adult but you want him jailed while at the same time praise the mother.
Total bullsh*t!
What you are saying that a Father has no responsibilities and what I am saying IS THAT IS BULL SHIT and is what’s wrong with our culture to many Kids with useless worthless Fathers
at fourteen scared and afraid it amazes me that someone brought up charging the girl as a possibility. She did the right thing for a kid to do she took the child to an adult. now I just pray both children get the help they need. the baby a good home and the child who had the baby a social workers looking into how come she was pregnant and is her living situation safe from abuse. either it is a case of abuse of a child by an adult or it is children having sex. what ever the case it it is important to find out.
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