According to officials, teenage girls found a barely dressed newborn baby abandoned on the ground outside an apartment complex in Tennessee.
A neighbor took a Facebook live video of a baby found in Memphis. The newborn’s umbilical cord was still attached, According to Fox13. Around 4 pm on Wednesday, December 8, police received a call about the baby and the television station reported that the baby was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in a non-dangerous state.
Locals expressed shock when they heard about the baby, and some went to WREG Memphis. Thank you for your child’s safetye..
“I haven’t seen it personally. I just heard about the baby left in the trash can, but it’s not that close to where you are every day,” neighbor Edison Hagan told the TV station. rice field.
Action News 5 features two teenage girls I found a baby on the groundThe child only wore a piece of cloth on his waist and the temperature was about 56 degrees Celsius.
The Memphis police station told Action News 5 that the baby would not be prosecuted against the mother who was present after being found outside the apartment complex.
McClatchy News contacted the Memphis police, but did not receive an immediate response.
The incident also sparked a larger conversation between the community and law enforcement agencies about the state’s Infant Safe Haven Act.
Late on the night of December 8, the Memphis Police Department announced the state’s official Safe Haven Act. On that Twitter..
“FYI, Tennessee Safe Haven Act allows newborn mothers to hand over intact babies to designated facilities within two weeks of birth without fear of being prosecuted,” the agency said on the page. Added to.
Designated facility Under Tennessee Law Includes hospitals, childbirth centers and community medical clinics.
Despite the shocking nature of the discovery, some neighbors are urging the community not to make harsh decisions on newborn mothers.
“As you know, it’s very quick for everyone to judge and blame people. We used to be in a situation where we didn’t know what to do. We make decisions about impulses and emotions. “I did,” Hagan told WREG. “It’s a holiday. It’s a season of eternal hope.”
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