FL MULBERRY, Fla- East of Tampa, on hill outside a trailer park, Girl, newborn, placenta attached, wrapped in blanket, 28 Jan 2023 *alive*

[dotr]

Baby girl found abandoned in Florida an hour after birth

Florida authorities found newborn girl wrapped in a blanket and still attached to a placenta outside a trailer park early Saturday morning.

torontosun.com

''newborn girl wrapped in a blanket and still attached to a placenta on a hill outside a trailer park

Polk County deputies responding to a call about a baby crying outside near Mulberry, east of Tampa, found the girl about an hour after she was born, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The temperature was in the low 50s (about 11 degrees Celsius).
Polk County medical workers took the baby to a hospital, where she was healthy and stable, according to the sheriff’s office.

“It was by the grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did, before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm. She was left in an extremely vulnerable condition, but she’s a strong little girl, and it looks like she’s doing great,” said Sheriff Grady Judd.

Deputies used a K-9 unit, a drone and bloodhound to try to find the mother, but were unsuccessful.

Florida has a safe haven law that allows parents to leave newborns at a fire station or medical facility up to a week after birth.''

 

[iamshadow21]

Baby girl found abandoned in Florida an hour after birth

Florida authorities found newborn girl wrapped in a blanket and still attached to a placenta outside a trailer park early Saturday morning.

torontosun.com

''newborn girl wrapped in a blanket and still attached to a placenta on a hill outside a trailer park

Polk County deputies responding to a call about a baby crying outside near Mulberry, east of Tampa, found the girl about an hour after she was born, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The temperature was in the low 50s (about 11 degrees Celsius).
Polk County medical workers took the baby to a hospital, where she was healthy and stable, according to the sheriff’s office.

“It was by the grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did, before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm. She was left in an extremely vulnerable condition, but she’s a strong little girl, and it looks like she’s doing great,” said Sheriff Grady Judd.

Deputies used a K-9 unit, a drone and bloodhound to try to find the mother, but were unsuccessful.

Florida has a safe haven law that allows parents to leave newborns at a fire station or medical facility up to a week after birth.''

Oh thank goodness. This one gets a chance to live her life. I hope it's a good one for you, babygirl, though the start was rough.

 

[PromotedPawn]

I hope mom is okay.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Praying Mom is just scared and not sure what options she had/has. Hopefully she’s getting the medical care and support she needs.

 

[Telltale]

Praying Mom is just scared and not sure what options she had/has. Hopefully she’s getting the medical care and support she needs.

I mean she could have left that baby on literally any doorstep if she didn't know of the safe haven laws. Leaving a newborn exposed on a hillside in winter means you are leaving them to die.

Now I have a lot of sympathy for mothers, especially with forced births becoming ever more common for the poor and vulnerable.

But seriously, outside of any occupied building would have been giving her some sort of chance. This was straight forward (if unsuccessful) infanticide.

 

[PromotedPawn]

I mean she could have left that baby on literally any doorstep if she didn't know of the safe haven laws. Leaving a newborn exposed on a hillside in winter means you are leaving them to die.

Now I have a lot of sympathy for mothers, especially with forced births becoming ever more common for the poor and vulnerable.

But seriously, outside of any occupied building would have been giving her some sort of chance. This was straight forward (if unsuccessful) infanticide.

I hope you're right. Hopefully mom just willingly tossed her baby on that hill and wasn't coerced, murdered, kidnapped, suffering a mental health crisis, etc. If that's the case then mom is likely alive and well and will be in jail soon. There are also other possibilities but your speculation is the best case scenario IMHO. Hopefully we have answers soon. So glad baby girl made it.

 

[dotr]

Deputies: Abandoned newborn found in Polk County after someone heard 'a baby crying outside'

Authorities estimate that the newborn was born approximately one hour before she was found.

www.wtsp.com

''The baby girl was found around 1:47 a.m. wrapped in a blanket, on a small hill near the Regal Loop Mobile Home Park, just off Bailey Road. She was still attached to the placenta, the sheriff's office explained. ''

''Authorities estimate the newborn was born approximately one hour before she was found, based on the infant's body temperature.''

''The mother of the newborn has not been found. Deputies said they've attempted to locate her with a K-9 unit, drone, bloodhound and even going door-to-door.''

ETA Slightly more info. details varied. rbbm

Abandoned newborn baby girl found outside Polk County mobile home park, deputies say

A newborn baby is recovering in the hospital after deputies say she was abandoned in the woods outside a Polk County mobile home park early Saturday morning.

www.fox13news.com

''MULBERRY, Fla. - A newborn baby is recovering in the hospital after deputies say she was abandoned in the woods outside a Polk County mobile home park early Saturday morning.

According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, a lady thought she heard cats screaming and fighting until about midnight on Friday. An hour and a half later she heard what sounded like a baby crying. She and her husband searched around and looked in the woods and found a baby girl.

Judd said the couple called 911. EMS and deputies who arrived found the baby wrapped in old blankets with the umbilical cord and placenta still attached.

According to PCSO, the baby is 6.5 pounds, fully developed and is very healthy except for some insect bites that she sustained from being in the woods for at least an hour and a half.''

Judd named the baby Angel Grace Lnu.

"She’s as beautiful as an angel. It’s by the grace of God she is not dead and Lnu is last name unknown," Judd explained.

Judd says the baby is believed to be of Hispanic descent and investigators are trying to find her parents.''

 

[Telltale]

I hope you're right. Hopefully mom just willingly tossed her baby on that hill and wasn't coerced, murdered, kidnapped, suffering a mental health crisis, etc. If that's the case then mom is likely alive and well and will be in jail soon. There are also other possibilities but your speculation is the best case scenario IMHO. Hopefully we have answers soon. So glad baby girl made it.

I sense sarcasm.

Yes it could have been kidnapping, murder, incest or alien abduction, but odds are she gave birth in secret and then she or (slightly less likely, the father) did took the baby out there and dumped it to die. Now personally I'd like to think nobody in their right mind would do that, and there would be no level of mental coercion that could excuse this.

Call me cynical but precedent says remote abandonments are usually requires the desperation and impulsivity of a concealed birth - which usually means the mother. The father, if inclined, tends to have an easier time dumping an abandoned baby in civilization (and is less likely to wrap up the placenta to go.)

There's a reason infanticide is a separate law in the UK, and that you can under certain circumstances get piss all of a sentence for killing your baby. This sort of thing happened a lot before abortion was an option.

Also LNU is a terrible last name placeholder. Can't they get a little creative with it? Make like GoT and call her Angel Grace Mulberry/Morales, or Park, or Yearwood, Polk, Bailey, maybe Nightingale.

Girls already had a rough start to life, throw her a vowel.

 

[iamshadow21]

I sense sarcasm.

Yes it could have been kidnapping, murder, incest or alien abduction, but odds are she gave birth in secret and then she or (slightly less likely, the father) did took the baby out there and dumped it to die. Now personally I'd like to think nobody in their right mind would do that, and there would be no level of mental coercion that could excuse this.

Call me cynical but precedent says remote abandonments are usually requires the desperation and impulsivity of a concealed birth - which usually means the mother. The father, if inclined, tends to have an easier time dumping an abandoned baby in civilization (and is less likely to wrap up the placenta to go.)

There's a reason infanticide is a separate law in the UK, and that you can under certain circumstances get piss all of a sentence for killing your baby. This sort of thing happened a lot before abortion was an option.

Also LNU is a terrible last name placeholder. Can't they get a little creative with it? Make like GoT and call her Angel Grace Mulberry/Morales, or Park, or Yearwood, Polk, Bailey, maybe Nightingale.

Girls already had a rough start to life, throw her a vowel.

Did they literally call her Last Name Unknown? Wow.

Could have at least called her after the nearest cross street or something. How are you even mean to pronounce it? Lah noo?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

According to WFTS, Magdalena Gregorio Ordonez and her 12-year-old daughter, Eulalia Gregorio, discovered the baby after they heard crying.

“I was really surprised that they left a poor little girl on the [ground]," Gregorio said.

"It was by the Grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did, before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm. She was left in an extremely vulnerable condition, but she's a strong little girl, and it looks like she's doing great," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

Florida mom, daughter discover abandoned newborn in woods behind their house

"It was by the Grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did, before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm," the sheriff said.

www.wesh.com

 

[iamshadow21]

According to WFTS, Magdalena Gregorio Ordonez and her 12-year-old daughter, Eulalia Gregorio, discovered the baby after they heard crying.

“I was really surprised that they left a poor little girl on the [ground]," Gregorio said.

"It was by the Grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did, before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm. She was left in an extremely vulnerable condition, but she's a strong little girl, and it looks like she's doing great," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

Florida mom, daughter discover abandoned newborn in woods behind their house

"It was by the Grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did, before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm," the sheriff said.

www.wesh.com

Angel Grace was lucky, and they did a wonderful thing investigating what they heard late at night. If she'd got much colder and tireder, she might have gone into a fatal sleep, and we'd be having a different conversation right now.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I understand there are Safe Haven laws for infants here in FL. However, this area is rural. There are no businesses near the mobile home park. My guess is the mother is very young and the pregnancy was unknown to others. The baby was wrapped in blankets so the mother had the awareness and instinct to protect her child.

I hope they can find the mother and she gets treatment and support. If she had the services she needed initially, education about birth control, family and medical support, she would have likely made a better decision.

Polk County Sheriff's Office

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[Laughing]

Wonder if the sound interpreted as cats fighting was the unidentified Mom during the birthing process?

Big fan of anesthesiologists, here.

Mom needs medical attention, praying that she gets that.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620542572090253313

 

[Susikatze]

So happy she was found in time and is alive and safe. Poor sweet baby.

 

[borndem]

Assuming now that LE will have to follow-up on this crime. Where do they start? Getting baby's DNA, blood type, and maybe a fingerprint on something (not likely, IMOO) is a start. Canvassing a nearby neighborhood, but how big an area would they canvass?
Put out an anonymous-caller number for "someone who saw something."
IMO, chances are good that mom may not have gone to an OB/GYN during the pregnancy, or if she did, she could have given a false name/address.
I'm doubtful that this will be resolved as to finding the mother.
If MSM gives more details, it should be interesting.
So glad that Baby Girl is okay, but it's a rough way to start.

 

[dotr]

Newborn Baby Girl Abandoned in Wooded Area 'Ostensibly to Die': Sheriff

Deputies say someone abandoned a newborn girl in a wooded area by a mobile home park.

lawandcrime.com

ALBERTO LUPERONJan 31st, 2023 rbbm.

Location where Magdalena Gregorio Ordonez said she found a newborn baby girl early Jan. 28, 2023. (Screenshot: WFTS)
''Polk County deputies said someone abandoned a newborn girl in a wooded area by a mobile home park. Sheriff Grady Judd said he named the child Angel Grace Lnu, as in “Last name unknown.”'

He said that just before midnight on Friday, a woman heard a sound, which she believed to be a cat screaming or fighting. The noise eventually quieted down.

“Then about an hour and a half later,” Judd said, “she heard this screaming and crying again, and she went outside, and said, ‘Well, that’s a baby.'”

She and her husband searched and found the newborn, he said.''

Investigators are still trying to determine if the baby was born in the woods.

“She is in exceptionally good condition,” the sheriff said. “She’s a beautiful child. We believe she’s of an Hispanic descent, and we need to know who the parents are.”

From the safe haven law:

Except when there is actual or suspected child abuse or neglect, any parent who leaves a newborn infant with a firefighter, emergency medical technician, or paramedic at a fire station or emergency medical services station, or brings a newborn infant to an emergency room of a hospital and expresses an intent to leave the newborn infant and not return, has the absolute right to remain anonymous and to leave at any time and may not be pursued or followed unless the parent seeks to reclaim the newborn infant. When an infant is born in a hospital and the mother expresses intent to leave the infant and not return, upon the mother’s request, the hospital or registrar shall complete the infant’s birth certificate without naming the mother thereon.

Newborn With Umbilical Cord and Placenta Attached Found Abandoned in Florida Woods: Cops

The baby girl, who was just an hour old when she was found, based on body temperature estimates, is alive and healthy.

www.insideedition.com

“If mom doesn’t want the child, there are thousands of people across the United States who would give anything to have a healthy little baby girl,” Judd said. “We’ll make sure the child gets a good home but we’ll find out with the community’s help who the mother is.”

Authorities had inquired around the two mobile home communities over the weekend, but no one seemed to know anyone who could have been pregnant, Judd said. They now intend to use DNA samples from the newborn to determine any family linkage.''

 

[tmhco]

I worry about the state of our society when people prioritize the state of a mother who left a newborn alone in the woods.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Angel Grace was lucky, and they did a wonderful thing investigating what they heard late at night. If she'd got much colder and tireder, she might have gone into a fatal sleep, and we'd be having a different conversation right now.

She was just doing what babies do, but ultimately she saved her own life by continuing to cry.

Quite a rough start for a newborn baby.
Wishing Angel Grace a healthy and happy future.

 

[iamshadow21]

I worry about the state of our society when people prioritize the state of a mother who left a newborn alone in the woods.

I don't think there's a problem with having empathy for someone who did a terrible thing. Having empathy for others isn't a failing. It doesn't mean we don't also want her to face the repercussions of her actions. For me - that's in court. It's not dying of shock or sepsis, or harming herself because she's mentally ill or in despair over her own actions and situation. I would be more comfortable being assured of her wellbeing, especially if she is vulnerable, as I suspect most of us believe her to be. If she's a scared fifteen year old - which is what I'm feeling, not based on any known fact, so MOO - I would feel better knowing she's safe.