Newborn Found In Toilet

[rhetoricfemme]

[url="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/07/south.carolina.baby/index.html?iref=obnetwork"]Link to article.[/url] Please pray for little boy, and for the woman who did this to him.


[quote](CNN) -- A baby boy is clinging to life at a South Carolina hospital, three days after being abandoned in an arena toilet after a circus show, police said.

A custodian discovered the infant, thought then just to be an hour or so old, late Friday night at Greenville's BI-LO Center. The boy was immediately brought for medical attention, with authorities unaware of how he'd gotten there or who his mother was.

Greenville Police Chief Terri Wilfong told HLN's Nancy Grace on Monday that authorities were sifting through videotape taken in and around a particular restroom, hoping to identify the woman who gave birth to the boy. Still, a single camera wasn't fixed on that site the entire night, she noted.

"The cameras do not stay stationary -- they move, so they do not have a constant vision of the bathroom," she said.

Several other factors are also complicating the search, including the possibility the mother may have taken pains to hide her pregnancy. Also, Wilfong noted, those attending Friday night's event may have come from anywhere.

"With 10,000 people (in the arena), it makes it very difficult," said Wilfong. "But we're doing everything we can."

This weekend, Greenville Police Sgt. Jason Rampey told reporters he didn't think "it's physically possible that a mother would not know (she) had given birth to a child."

He added, too, that it seems unlikely such a woman would be able to hide her pregnancy from everyone, pressing the public to reach out to police if they have ideas on who the mother might be.

"Somebody -- a parent, a family member or a friend -- would know that (she) was pregnant," Rampey said.

According to Rampey, a custodian found the newborn after the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey performance, after hearing "what he believed to be a child crying or whimpering."

The baby was in the toilet water and soon rushed to the Children's Hospital at Greenville Memorial Hospital to be treated for hypothermia, according to CNN affiliate WYFF.

Besides investigating possible criminal wrongdoing, related to abandoning a child, Rampey told reporters that police wanted to find the young mother to assure her own health and well-being.

"She would need medical attention at this point," he said.[/quote]

[Lil'Monster]

how can she not know that she had given birth to child? Didn't she hear crying or didn't she even looked in the toilet?

yeah she was probably mentally unbalanced and she might be using drugs too.

poor baby, I'll be praying for him and also his family too.

[Tally Marx]

A year or two ago, a teenaged mother in Texas gave birth to a son in the highschool bathroom. She tried to flush him down the toilet, but when that didn't work she smothered him with toilet paper.

These people don't necessarily have the excuse of being on drugs, or being mentally unbalanced. They don't need it. Just hours earlier, and they could have legally had the child killed. What's the difference now? They know the truth: nothing. The only difference between the child they carried and the child they killed was location.

Abortion de-personalizes children. There is no difference between killing an unborn child and killing a born one. People are bound to realize this. People with morals realize that this means we should treat the unborn the same as a born child; people without moral incentive, though, would come to the conclusion that we can treat born children just as we do the unborn.

I will pray for the child, that he is healthy (if his mother was on drugs, there's good chance he's got problems, poor little thing....) and unbalanced or no, the mother needs prayers, too! Where's my Rosary? I'll pray for my country while I am at it.

Edited February 10, 2011 by Tally Marx

[Laudate_Dominum]

Just the title of this thread is more than I can handle...

[Brother Adam]

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Just the title of this thread is more than I can handle...
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word.

[rhetoricfemme]

They found the mother! It's an embedded video,[url="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/02/09/exp.hln.baby.toilet.court.hln?hpt=T2"]so here's the news link to that.[/url]

She claims to have not known she was pregnant and doesn't remember any of this. She's married and has a 4 year old at home.

The newborn boy is stable, Thank God!

[Ed Normile]

So, did the umbilical cord cut itself, can this even happen? This woman is married? Was this child the produce of an affair and the woman tried to conceal the deed by leaving the baby? There are places everywhere that a baby can be left legally. There is also the old standby, the steps of a church. Leaving a baby to die in a toilet, I want to punch this woman in the face. I hope they look into the care given to her 4 year old child at home, if this woman is that unstable that she did not know she was pregnant or that she had given birth is she capable of caring for her other child?

ed

[Seven77]

Lord have mercy...

[Selah]

I want to cuss and yell and say nasty things that aren't appropriate for this forum right now...still, I am happy the baby is stable.

Edited February 10, 2011 by Selah

[fides quarens intellectum]

i just don't understand.

[rhetoricfemme]

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i just don't understand.


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Unfortunately, I don't think there is any kind of understanding any person can have when it comes to something like this.