By Dave Andrusko Of all the amazing survival stories of abandoned newborns, this must rank near the top. The Daily Mail of London reported today that a baby boy survived being thrown off a fifth floor balcony. How could that be even possible? He landed on banana...
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One-day abandoned newborn nearly tossed into garbage truck
'Angels are watching over him,’ nurse tells newspaper By Dave Andrusko First the good, good news. A one-day-old abandoned baby found hanging in a plastic bag from a fence in the Philippines by a trash man on Monday is alive, according to the Daily Mail. Several people...
Abandoned newborn rescued “just in time”
Survived naked, six feet underground in storm water drain in a colony of stinging red ants By Dave Andrusko When abandoned newborns are found alive, the first and perfectly understandable reaction is to call their rescue a miracle. But if you can categorize miracles,...
Michigan mother of abandoned newborn charged with child abandonment and child abuse
By Dave Andrusko Last week a teen mother who abandoned her newborn on the side of a dirt road in rural Michigan was charged in juvenile court with one count of child abandonment and one count of second-degree child abuse. Thanks to alert neighbors the baby was...