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Infant Had Been Run Over Several Times (CBS) NEW YORK The dead body of a newborn baby that had been crushed by a car was discovered lying on a Long Island street Saturday. Police had few clues where the infant came from, or whether it was dead or alive when it was abandoned. A man walking his dog found the badly mangled body at 7:30 a.m. on a residential street near a golf course and a high school in Hempstead, about 20 miles east of Manhattan. "The first time I saw it, I thought it was a dead raccoon,...

WICHITA, Kan. —'Can I do this?' his mother agonized, knowing one of her newborns would not live. But for 43 hours, he was hers to cherish. She wanted to honor her son, to celebrate his life, however short. That's why she had refused an abortion, even after doctors told her that her little boy would be born without a brain. Now he was here, squirming in his blankets... The specialists she consulted offered Danielle a "selective reduction": They could abort the malformed twin. That might give her a better chance of carrying the healthy baby to term, but there was...

A couple were forced to endure a five-week wait for DNA results to find out if a newborn baby was theirs. A midwife at Furness General Hospital told Sarah Wilson and Martyn Cahill, from Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, their new 6lb 12oz baby was a boy. The couple named the child Ryan William, but later discovered they had a girl when giving her a bath, and feared they had the wrong baby. Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised for the mistake. The couple told friends and relatives they had a boy. We are in the process of ascertaining how this happened...

Newborn 'cooling Cap' to Fight Brain Damage Nearing Market The Associated Press Published: Jun 17, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - A device that chills newborns' brains moved a step closer to the market Friday: The government's scientific advisers ruled the Cool-Cap may help stave off brain damage in certain infants deprived of oxygen at birth. But the Food and Drug Administration advisers said Olympic Medical Corp.'s Cool-Cap would have to be sold under careful conditions to be sure the emerging technology really helps. The FDA isn't bound by its advisers' recommendations but typically follows them. Research shows that mild hypothermia -...

Nick Silverio of Safe Haven for Newborns in Florida has asked that we spread the word of a disabled newborn in need of adoption. The child, born today, has no arms, only one leg, and is missing a good portion of his jaw - but his prognosis is good. The baby was abandoned by his mother under the Florida Safe Haven law and, unless potential adoptive parents can be found, quickly, the child will become a ward of the state(and, it is feared, the target of euthanasia). The Florida Department of Children and Families will not become involved unless information...

A woman from Merseyside has given birth to what is reportedly the biggest British baby born since 1997. Joseph Griffin - nicknamed "The Mighty Joe" by his family - weighed in at 13lb 13oz when he was born two weeks ago in Wirral, Merseyside. The massive newborn was delivered by Caesarean section after mother Sara Griffin, 25, underwent a gruelling 40-hour attempt at a natural birth. Ms Griffin attributes Joseph's size to the seafood she craved while pregnant. She said: "I used to eat a lot of meat but I went off it. Instead I was eating a lot of...

The newborn's head was in the dirty toilet water. Her skin was purple. Stephen Flick Jr. knew the next few moments were precious. He turned from a Fresno police officer to a paramedic, a job he held before entering law enforcement. "I thought, 'Either I'm going to get this kid out and start working, or it'll be dead,'" Flick, 31, said. The incident happened early Friday at a home in southeast Fresno. A woman called 911, reporting her 15-year-old daughter gave birth while she was going to the bathroom. She thought the baby was dead. They were partially correct: The...

Girl let out of criminal custody Farmworker who abandoned baby in toilet held for immigration By GEORGE B. SANCHEZ Herald Salinas Bureau The young Oaxacan woman accused of abandoning her newborn outside Soledad is now being held for immigration officials after a judge released her from local criminal proceedings. An immigration hold was placed on the woman when she was booked into Juvenile Hall in June after being arrested on charges of attempted murder and child abandonment, said Mike McNews, Monterey County probation services manager. The woman has since turned 18. On Thursday, the court ordered her released from custody...

Massachusetts State Police have issued an Amber Alert for the greater Boston area for a missing newborn who is only 19 days old. Police are looking for a man in connection with the infant's disappearance. They have identified him as Josh Lizama, 28, described as having black hair, about 5 feet, 5 inches, wearing black and beige pants. Police said he may be armed. Another male may be driving the car. Authorities are looking for a freshly-painted 1998 White Ford Crown Victoria with a license plate of 5192VR. They said there was also information that cars may have been switched...

Soledad (AP) - A teenager was arrested Thursday on charges that she gave birth to a baby girl inside a portable toilet and left her there. The newborn girl was found in lying in waste at the bottom of the toilet, according to a police report from the Monterey County Sheriff's Office. A farm worker pulled her out after hearing the child's screams. Paramedics rushed the girl to Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital and she was later transported to Lucille Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto. "I think if the baby had been another half hour to an hour longer there,...

<<Back Forest CountyMan Arrested for Assault of NewbornA 20-year-old man is custody accused of assaulting a 17-day-old boy in Forest County.The infant was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Rhinelander Sunday. "A preliminary examination indicated the infant may have been a victim of physical abuse and sexual assault," Chief Deputy Ken Van Cleve said.The infant was airlifted to St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield and remains hospitalized.The man, who is described as a family member, was arrested Tuesday following an investigation. He's being held on $20,000 cash bail.Van Cleve expects the man will be charged with physical abuse of a child by a...

<p>A borough woman who gave birth into a toilet tried to kill her premature newborn by closing the lid and leaving her there to die, authorities said Sunday.</p> <p>Denise Marie Winner, 42, of the first block of Mount Ephraim Avenue, was charged with attempted murder and endangering the welfare of a child, Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi said. If convicted, she faces 30 years in prison.</p>

Last Wednesday, two weeks earlier than expected, and with 13 minutes to spare, you were born on your mother's birthday. It was not love at first sight. I had already been quite fond of you for months, guessing whether you were thrusting an elbow or knee toward the outside world, smiling at your black-and-white image on the refrigerator door, and even making excuses for your proclivity for giving your mother heartburn. All in all, though, you treated your mother fairly well these past nine months, and for this I owe you. I have heard that expectant fathers are not entirely...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant and the cast of "Friends" are in heavenly company -- at least when it comes to naming children. Parents in Oklahoma apparently like to thumb through the Bible, watch Bryant slam-dunk, or take in the popular television sitcom while mulling over names for their children-to-be. According to statistics provided by the state's Health Department, there were 74 children born in Oklahoma in 2002 who were named Kobe or a derivative of the name. Religious names were also popular for the 50,160 babies born in Oklahoma last year. Jacob was...

Where have all the women gone? There was Kate Michelman, standing behind Sen. Maria Cantwell and the rest of the obstruction Dems on Capitol Hill last week. Together they once again blasted Texas Supreme Court judge Priscilla Owen — a sister! but an ideological heretic — for being the latest bunker-buster headed for the federal bench in order to destroy the penumbras and emanations-of-penumbras of Roe v. Wade. Or so the liberal Democratic interpretation goes. But why, meanwhile, are the "feminists" nowhere to be seen defending Scott Peterson's right to choose to kill his nearly newborn child? Sure, we all...

Baby is left in firefighter's armsSt. Petersburg Times; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Oct 16, 2002; CANDACE RONDEAUX; It was a little after 3 a.m. when firefighter Ken Vandermeir heard it. Tap, tap, tap - the insistent sound of a hand rapping on the narrow window of the fire station's garage door. Vandermeir could make out the face of a white man in his early 20s peering through the glass. The man motioned for Vandermeir to open the door. Dressed in a T-shirt and shorts smeared with blood, the man said just a few words. "He asked if this was a safe...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) _ An 18-year-old mother who gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom of her father's Brookfield diner and dumped the infant in the garbage has been sentenced to four years in prison. Teresa Perez of Danbury was sentenced by Judge Patrick Carroll in Danbury Superior Court on Thursday. The baby, named Christopher, was born Nov. 23. An employee emptying the trash found the infant several hours after his birth. The child barely survived the incident. His temperature had dropped to 85 degrees and he was treated for hypothermia at Danbury Hospital. He now lives with...