Mom made up tossed baby story
- Posted by Preston Taylor Holmes on February 11th, 2005 filed in General
You may have heard the story earlier today about the good samaritan who witnessed a couple allegedly throw a 1-hour old baby out the window of a moving car near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
I’m glad to say that the story now has a happy ending.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A woman who claimed to have rescued a newborn boy after he was thrown from a moving car was actually the child’s mother, fabricating the story to conceal her pregnancy, officials said Friday.The woman, who kept her pregnancy a secret from her family and others, had planned to take the baby to authorities, Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne said. She then built her story after seeing two people argue inside their car, he said; the baby was never thrown.
“It’s not as horrible as we first thought,” Jenne said. “The baby was never thrown out of a moving car. This is the case of a disturbed woman who gave birth and did not want to keep her child.”
The woman gave birth Thursday afternoon, and an hour later dropped him off at a Broward sheriff’s substation, telling authorities her tale of seeing the boy tossed out of the car, Jenne said.
The 38-year-old woman has not been charged.
“She has indicated that she does not want the child,” Jenne said.
This is a happy ending on two fronts: First, the baby was never actually thrown from a vehicle or anywhere else; and second, the woman, though disturbed, brought the baby to authorities. Even bringing the baby in under pretense is a good outcome for the baby. She could have just as easily thrown the baby out an apartment window and let it die in the alley.
I’m also glad to know that this mythical baby-throwing couple doesn’t exist, as that’s two more people I don’t have to wish a painful death upon.
Now we have to hope that the baby boy doesn’t get lost in the bureaucratic shuffle of the horrific Florida Department of Child Services. (Thanks, Hector)
Cross-posted at Six Meat Buffet
Cocked and Locked says:
Justified
I wouldn’t advocate their use when it comes to disposing of political adversaries… However, when it comes to certain people, I don’t even want to hear about the extenuating circumstances or their mental condition. They should be making the garden…
srmc says:
It is sad the things people will do and say. We had so many babies in dumpsters that my state finally made a law where you could take and leave a baby at the hospital and have no questions asked. Unfortunately I don’t think other states work this way.
By the way I found you thru Michelle.