Post by HawaiianFantasy on Feb 11, 2005 5:01:01 GMT -5
just saw on our local news in Florida a baby boy wrapped up in a blanket was only couple of hours old and tossed out of a car window.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10868631.htm?1c
Posted on Thu, Feb. 10, 2005
R E L A T E D C O N T E N T
BROWARD SHERRIF'S OFFICE
BUNDLE OF JOY: Though still listed in serious condition late Thursday, doctors expect this unnamed infant to survive after being put in a plastic bag and thrown from a car.
Thrown from moving car, 'miracle baby' survives
An hour-old baby boy stuffed in a plastic bag was tossed from a car in North Lauderdale on Thursday and survived, thanks to a good Samaritan.
By JEANNETTE RIVERA-LYLES AND HANNAH SAMPSON
jrivera@herald.com
A newborn boy miraculously survived being tossed out of the window of a moving car in a plastic bag like roadside litter on Thursday.
Doctors estimate the baby could not have been more than an hour old when he was discarded by the side of the road around 2:30 p.m., near the North Lauderdale Boys and Girls Club in the area of the 7300 block of Kimberly Boulevard.
The baby was thrown out of a car three or four feet onto a grassy area when the car slowed and the passenger-side door opened, a witness told deputies.
The 8-pound, 2-ounce infant is listed in serious condition at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Doctors are fairly confident his condition could be upgraded soon, said Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright.
''He has no visible bruises or scratches and appears to be fine,'' Coleman-Wright said.
``But we won't know that for sure until doctors are done with the tests. He is so beautiful, a little miracle baby.''
His umbilical cord, still attached and about a foot long, had not been surgically cut.
A woman who witnessed the incident from her vehicle told investigators that a man and woman were in the car, which she said appeared to be an old white Ford Crown Victoria, traveling west on Kimberly Boulevard then north on Southwest 73rd Avenue.
According to the witness, the couple in the car seemed to be arguing.
Minutes later, the car slowed, the door was flung open, and she saw a package flying onto the grass shoulder.
Then the car sped up to the intersection and went east on Forest Boulevard.
The witness, who was not identified by BSO, stopped and noticed that the package -- a plastic bag -- was moving.
She opened it to discover the baby inside.
The woman wrapped the baby in a towel. She immediately took the infant to a nearby sheriff's office substation, from where the baby was flown to the hospital.
Investigators are interviewing the witness, hoping for more than the vague description she gave them of the people in the car, BSO said.
Coleman-Wright would not say what charges those two people might face.
''Right now our priority is the baby's well being,'' she said. ``We want Mom to come forward and get medical care. Doctors have told us that she could be at risk of infection.''
PICTURE OF BABY IN LINK
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10868631.htm?1c
Posted on Thu, Feb. 10, 2005
R E L A T E D C O N T E N T
BROWARD SHERRIF'S OFFICE
BUNDLE OF JOY: Though still listed in serious condition late Thursday, doctors expect this unnamed infant to survive after being put in a plastic bag and thrown from a car.
Thrown from moving car, 'miracle baby' survives
An hour-old baby boy stuffed in a plastic bag was tossed from a car in North Lauderdale on Thursday and survived, thanks to a good Samaritan.
By JEANNETTE RIVERA-LYLES AND HANNAH SAMPSON
jrivera@herald.com
A newborn boy miraculously survived being tossed out of the window of a moving car in a plastic bag like roadside litter on Thursday.
Doctors estimate the baby could not have been more than an hour old when he was discarded by the side of the road around 2:30 p.m., near the North Lauderdale Boys and Girls Club in the area of the 7300 block of Kimberly Boulevard.
The baby was thrown out of a car three or four feet onto a grassy area when the car slowed and the passenger-side door opened, a witness told deputies.
The 8-pound, 2-ounce infant is listed in serious condition at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Doctors are fairly confident his condition could be upgraded soon, said Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright.
''He has no visible bruises or scratches and appears to be fine,'' Coleman-Wright said.
``But we won't know that for sure until doctors are done with the tests. He is so beautiful, a little miracle baby.''
His umbilical cord, still attached and about a foot long, had not been surgically cut.
A woman who witnessed the incident from her vehicle told investigators that a man and woman were in the car, which she said appeared to be an old white Ford Crown Victoria, traveling west on Kimberly Boulevard then north on Southwest 73rd Avenue.
According to the witness, the couple in the car seemed to be arguing.
Minutes later, the car slowed, the door was flung open, and she saw a package flying onto the grass shoulder.
Then the car sped up to the intersection and went east on Forest Boulevard.
The witness, who was not identified by BSO, stopped and noticed that the package -- a plastic bag -- was moving.
She opened it to discover the baby inside.
The woman wrapped the baby in a towel. She immediately took the infant to a nearby sheriff's office substation, from where the baby was flown to the hospital.
Investigators are interviewing the witness, hoping for more than the vague description she gave them of the people in the car, BSO said.
Coleman-Wright would not say what charges those two people might face.
''Right now our priority is the baby's well being,'' she said. ``We want Mom to come forward and get medical care. Doctors have told us that she could be at risk of infection.''
PICTURE OF BABY IN LINK
