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Baby, with umbilical cord attached, abandoned on Rogers Ave — Brooklynian

Baby, with umbilical cord attached, abandoned on Rogers Ave

joebrooklynian
joebrooklynian
edited November -1 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens

The mother, Shoshannah Mohammad, was just arrested:

Police say ... Mohammad was seen carrying the baby along Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights Thursday, before another witness, Lydia Romero, said Mohammad rang the doorbell of a nearby brownstone and left the child, claiming she couldn't take care of it.

"I opened the blanket the baby was wrapped in, the umbilical cord was all around her stomach and her leg, you know," said Romero. "I got scared and I closed it up and when I went outside to tell her, you know, I couldn't take care of the baby, she had left."

Read more: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/157649/police-arrest-mother-of-abandoned-brooklyn-newborn

Comments

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    NY's Safe Haven Law attempts to minimize the potential harm to infants in such situations.

    What is a Safe Haven law?

    Safe Haven Infant Protection Laws enable a person to give up an unwanted infant anonymously. As long as the baby has not been abused, the person may do so without fear of arrest or prosecution.

    The purpose of Safe Haven is to protect unwanted babies from being hurt or killed because they were abandoned.

    You may have heard tragic stories of babies left in dumpsters or public toilets. The parents who committed these acts may have been under severe emotional distress. The mothers may have hidden their pregnancies, fearful of what would happen if their families found out. Because they were afraid and had nowhere to turn for help, they abandoned their babies.

    Abandoning a baby puts the child in extreme danger. Too often, it results in the child’s death. It is also illegal, with severe consequences. But with Safe Haven, this tragedy doesn’t ever have to happen again.

    http://safehaven.tv/about.php

  • joebrooklynian
    joebrooklynian

    Yikes!

    The paramedic who saved a Brooklyn newborn's life on Wednesday said the baby girl had already turned blue as he started to resuscitate the lifeless child.

    A woman gave the baby, whose umbilical cord was still attached and tied off with a shoestring, to a stranger on Bedford Avenue a little after 6 p.m. Wednesday and then fled. The good Samaritan turned the baby over to medics at Lincoln Place and Rogers Avenue.

    Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120315/cobble-hill-carroll-gardens/emergency-responders-describe-saving-abandoned-newborn-baby-brooklyn#ixzz1pI6seSzD

  • clayfilms
    clayfilms

    Praise God that the babies life was saved!!

  • snowboardqueen
    snowboardqueen

    Relatively speaking, abandoning a new born on a strangers doorstep is not close to the best decision.., but there are far, far worse scenarios that unfortunately happen everyday concerning new-borns.

    At the least, I am just glad that the Mother left the new-born on a door step and not in a dumpster, flushed down a toilet, wrapped in plastic and tossed in the garbage, etc., etc.

    I wish there was a better way to raise awareness of http://safehaven.tv/about.php to the communities and people who need it most, so no child is left abandoned in the cold with little chance of survival if not found almost immediately.

  • mr. met
    mr. met

    another kid who's gonna struggle

    maybe the mother should have had an abortion

  • bkchickie
    bkchickie

    I only hope that the mother's parental rights are terminated. There many, many adoptive families available where this kid will thrive.

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