This is beyond me (14)

I have benn comming across too many stories of this kind lately from all over the world.Yes, I can understand that in some circumstances a person is not equipped to raise a child or want one but to just leave a newborn in this way is beyond me.



Neighbours still in disbelief after finding abandoned baby
Wed Jun 6, 10:21 PM


By James Stevenson

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. (CP) - Tanya Nickel was so surprised at hearing that a newborn had been abandoned just around the corner from her house that she asked her neighbour if it was a real baby.

"Of course it was a real baby," Nickel said Wednesday, one day after a child was found in a quiet, tree-lined neighbourhood in the southeastern Alberta city of Medicine Hat.

"I was so shocked, are you serious? That's something you hear about, it doesn't happen here - it's too small of a town. But I guess not."

While the baby boy appears to be in good health, Medicine Hat police were still searching Wednesday for the newborn's mother.

"We just want to find the mom," said Cpl. Sandy Mahon. "It's our No. 1 concern to make sure she's OK and healthy."

She said police don't know if the mother needs medical attention and are focusing their efforts on finding her by checking motels, hotels and homes in the area.

Mahon also said it's far too early to tell if charges would be laid.

Clad in a shirt and wrapped in a light brown bath towel, the baby was placed in a recessed doorstep of a house with his head pointing toward the street.

Residents of the house were actually away on vacation at the time, but fortunately the weather was still warm and sunny and a storm that hit the region Tuesday night had not yet arrived.

A next-door neighbour working in her garden heard a baby crying and discovered the infant. She then went to get Nickel to help her and to call for an ambulance.

The boy was uncovered and kicking his arms and legs, said Nickel, but he didn't seem to be in pain.

"I held him and was looking at him - he was breathing fine, blinking and looking around. He was still dirty and hadn't been cleaned."

The police say they believe the child was somewhere between 24 and 36 hours old when he was discovered.

The baby was taken just two blocks away to Medicine Hat Regional Hospital where he was listed in good health.

Nickel said leaving the boy so close to the hospital makes little sense and feared that the proximity to the TransCanada Highway meant the mother was long gone.

"Why wouldn't she just put him in the hospital? Just to leave it to chance like that is beyond belief to me."

A friend of Nickel's said a woman was reported running down a nearby street Tuesday afternoon holding a baby.
By Wednesday afternoon, no witnesses had come forward.
The Medicine Hat case is just the latest incident on the Prairies of newborns being abandoned.
Last month, a woman delivered a baby boy in the washroom of a Wal-Mart store in Prince Albert, Sask. The child was found in a toilet. The mother came forward a few days later after police released security video of her entering the store. No charges have been laid so far.

Last winter, a baby girl was abandoned on the steps of a Saskatoon home in frigid temperatures. A young woman who said she was new to the city and had no one to turn to eventually came forward. No charges were laid in that case.

Good Mornin' Curly!

WOW, stuff like that amazes me....how someone can just abandon a child like that is beyond me also!

the stupid thing is that women like myself who would love to have a child, doesn't.....(I was raised the Catholic way..meet someone, fall in love, get MARRIED and then have a child)......I guess I waited too long.....along with many other women...and for other reasons also.

Instead of finding the "mother" of the child, put up the child for adoption...if she decided to leave the child on a doorstep or at Walmart, then she shouldn't be looked for! OBVIOUSLY she wanted out!

Maybe Tanya should adopt the baby?

(thought bubble)...poor baby..

Well it happens and it is sad..kids having kids..not ready to deal with it..drugs and other social issues ..no money,,Charging the parent isn't gonna make a bit of difference for the kids that are thrown away..We all need to stand up and be willing to take the lead and make homes for these kids..Don't give the baby back it will just play out into a life of grief.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.

"I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she's done to it
There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool. "


Where did u find that?

yes that is so sad........

CURLY,

I was listening to the radio yesterday when they were talking about this. I guess this happens ALOT more frequent that you think.

And what message are we sending to our kids about this? My oldest is almost 12 and we ahve already had "the talk". I made sure that if there was anything he wanted to talk to me about - he could. Why would these young girls/women be so scared of asking for help from a friend or relative that they would drop their kids off on people's door steps, garbage cans and toliets?

I have always said that if your NOT willing to be responsable for the actions you make - then don't make them! People, please seat down with your kids and talk to them about this - I think just talking to them about the "birds and the bees" just isn't enough!!

Its just as much as OUR responsibilty as parernts, as it is theirs.

It is very sad that people find this to be the only way out. There are many couples who can't have children and would love to adopt a baby.
So why not give the child a future and adopt him/her out if they just drop them at a doorstep anyhow.

My grandmother actually told me that in Germany there are quite a few cases where women go to rest areas along the autobahn and give birth there then dispose of the baby in the garbage can.
In one case it actually was a couple that went there. The woman gave birth and the guy took the child slashed it's throat and threw it in the trash.

I could not believe that when she told me. I thought that was the most god awful thing i have ever heard.
It makes your heart bleed honestly.
I can not understand nor grasp what drives people to do stuff like that.
As i said there is always the option of adopting out but killing a baby? That is barbaric!

Seems as if some people really think everything in today's society is disposable.Just glad more think different.

It's sad to think that they think by abandoning or sticking them into a wal-mart toilet it's thier only way out of a situation that is to much for them. My heart bleeds for all the defensless children who have no say in the cruelty that happens to them.