For a family living in Syria, finding an abandoned baby in the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo meant an extra mouth to feed. But in spite of the difficulties they were putting themselves into, the baby was saved given the name ‘Gift from God’.
In yet another shocking case of parents forgetting the role of being a parent, a 6 day old infant was left alone in a hotel room crying while his mom and father went out. Police have charged the couple with abandonment and endangering the baby.
In our years writing about ridiculous parenting events, we have covered many parents who have left their kids unattended in the car. Often they will say that they forgot they had the baby with them or that they just ran in a store quickly. On Saturday, however, a New Zealand mom purposefully left her sleeping baby in the car with a note attached.
For two San Francisco officers a call last week to save an abandoned baby became one of the most emotional experiences ever as they held the bluish body of the boy and hoped they could make it in time to the hospital to save the newborn.
Earlier this week, an Amber Alert was issued for three-week-old Mia Graci Thompson. Baby Mia’s mother had initially called in the report, telling police that the baby had been abducted. Nearly 12 hours later, the little girl was found in a ditch just outside city limits. Now, the 19-year-old mother is in police custody.
For Amanda Moulton it was a spur of the moment decision to walk the wooded path off Middle Road in Dandy, as she wanted to show her boyfriend where she played as a child. But what began as a walk down memory lane soon became a blessing in disguise for a baby that had been abandoned in the woods.
What looked like a bomb, turned out to be an abandoned baby. Polish soldiers posted in Afghanistan were surprised to find an abandoned baby girl while patrolling the southern parts of the country on Thursday.
She may have been a garbage collector all her life, but for 30 abandoned babies Lou Xiaoying has been nothing less than an angel who cared and nurtured them when even their birth parents left them to die.
When a mom in UK left her baby alone at home and admitted to it, she was bound to go to prison for at least 10 years. But quite unexpectedly, the woman was spared, thanks to PM David Cameroon’s similar blunder recently when he too left his 8 year old daughter Nancy alone in a pub.
Call it absentmindedness, carelessness or both, but in a shocking incident a father left his 2 year old son locked in the back of his car for two hours while he was at work. The temperature was a scorching 85 degrees outside and it wasn’t until a co-worker called 911 that crews were able to free the baby.
A farm dog in Ghana has been dubbed the ‘hero hound’ after he was found under a bridge keeping an abandoned baby safe.
Amanda Nejat, a 46-year-old mother and program director at the Bay Area Surrogacy Program in California spends her days providing professional advice to new parents. Her online profile states that she offers “comprehensive service guiding growing families with information, critical knowledge and support from beginning to post birth needs.”
An infant is lucky to be a live after he was stuffed in a plastic bag shortly after birth and dumped in a toilet in China. Thankfully a passerby heard his faint cries and worked to rescue the tiny baby.
