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Baby found floating in bag in lake (video of amazing rescue)
CNN ^ | January 29, 2006

Posted on 01/30/2006 6:33:04 AM PST by NYer

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A baby girl remained hospitalized in good condition Sunday after being thrown into a lake in Brazilian park wrapped inside a plastic bag, doctors said.

The baby, apparently 2 months old, was rescued Saturday afternoon by a couple who heard her crying in the Pampulha Lagoon in Belo Horizonte, a city about 500 kilometers (300 miles) northeast of Sao Paulo.

Amateur footage broadcast on Brazilian TV showed rescuers using a long tree branch to pull the black plastic bag out of the water. They opened the bag and found the girl -- wearing a pink dress -- soaked inside. (Watch shocked rescuers open bag and find a crying infant -- 1:50)

"I heard what sounded like a cat," Jose da Cruz told Globo TV. "Then the noise was increasing and it caught my attention."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: abandonedbaby; brazil; rescue
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1 posted on 01/30/2006 6:33:06 AM PST by NYer
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To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
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2 posted on 01/30/2006 6:33:35 AM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: NYer

What's the female equivalent name for "Moses?"


3 posted on 01/30/2006 6:34:24 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: NYer

"Authorities had no leads on why the baby was thrown in the lagoon."

Maybe she was 'unwanted'.


4 posted on 01/30/2006 6:34:37 AM PST by DesignerChick
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To: ken5050

Mosecita?


5 posted on 01/30/2006 6:35:07 AM PST by The Red Zone
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To: NYer
I got the perfect name for the baby.

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6 posted on 01/30/2006 6:35:41 AM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: DesignerChick
Maybe she was 'unwanted'.

Oh, yeah, well, that would make it all right then.

7 posted on 01/30/2006 6:35:43 AM PST by madprof98
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To: mware

On second thought since she is a girl, what was Moses wife's name???


8 posted on 01/30/2006 6:36:30 AM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: ken5050

Just another post-birth abortion...

I think I'm going to throw up.


9 posted on 01/30/2006 6:38:00 AM PST by kx9088
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To: NYer

FoxNews showed the video, said the mother was located, arrested.

She denies throwing the baby into the river, but said she did give the baby to some homeless people.


10 posted on 01/30/2006 6:42:25 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: mware
Zipporah.

That's difficult for a girl's name -- think of the teasing!

11 posted on 01/30/2006 6:42:54 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: TomGuy
she did give the baby to some homeless people.

Sure, blame it on the homeless guy. Anybody who watches Law & Order knows that the homeless are really the eyes and ears of law enforcement.

12 posted on 01/30/2006 6:47:45 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: madprof98

Well, I guess so.
I believe - my own theory here - that since the arguement of 'personhood'..... (you know the 'pro-choice' movement has been forced to admit a fetus is a human being so now they claim "yes, but its not a 'person'")..... that we have moved onto the "self-awareness" rational.
Ask yourself: "If you, a newborn, are unaware of your existance....does it (i.e. your life) matter, or at least, outweight those who are self-aware?"
Don't laugh. Its a serious question in the Peter Singer/eugenics crowd.


13 posted on 01/30/2006 6:49:02 AM PST by DesignerChick
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To: RGSpincich
"Anybody who watches Law & Order knows that the homeless..."

I believe the current nomenclature is, "Urban Outdoorsmen."

14 posted on 01/30/2006 6:49:45 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: NYer
As I watched the video on a news station I was astounded that in this very 3rd worldish looking place someone just happened to have a video camera, charged loaded and ready to go, as this baby was found. It really seemed staged to me.

We had trouble locating a charged loaded camera to shoot my daughter blowing out her birthday candles at her 18th Birthday Party and we live in a pretty technologically advanced enviorment.

15 posted on 01/30/2006 6:51:59 AM PST by Zevonismymuse
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To: AnAmericanMother

There actually was a girl named Zipporah (known as Zippy) who was a majorette at the big high school in our area back in 1946.


16 posted on 01/30/2006 6:56:42 AM PST by 19th LA Inf
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To: NYer
I saw this on the local news this AM. The reporterette commented, "How could anyone do something like this?"

I wonder if she makes the same comments about abortion.

Nothing new here except the means of disposal.

17 posted on 01/30/2006 6:56:54 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: NYer

so they just happen to have the camera there. saw it on TV. this one smells.


18 posted on 01/30/2006 7:06:28 AM PST by kinghorse
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To: madprof98
Maybe she was 'unwanted'.

Oh, yeah, well, that would make it all right then

Now, now. We all know that if the mother doesn't want the baby, then it is not a person. It is intolerant of us to judge someone exercising their right to 'choose' -- unless the life taken is that of a convicted criminal.

Remember, we're FOR killing the innocent, AGAINST killing the guilty...
19 posted on 01/30/2006 7:09:55 AM PST by walford (http://the-big-pic.org)
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To: Zevonismymuse

Brazilians always seem to have video cameras in-hand. It must be a cultural thing but they always have the latest stuff, digital cameras, digital video, and the whole nine yards.


20 posted on 01/30/2006 7:12:13 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (France kicked Germany's teeth out at Verdun among other places.)
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