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    May
    2013
    6:53am, EDT

    Police arrest mother of baby abandoned on Hawaii beach

    By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy, The Associated Press

    A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she's the baby's mother.

    Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday evening for filing a false police report. Police don't expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released.

    She had told police she was parked at Sandy Beach in east Honolulu sometime between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and midnight when she heard several people screaming. After the screaming stopped, she said, she walked toward the ocean and found the naked newborn and took her to a hospital.

    It's up to Family Court to decide whether to return the child to her family or whether parental rights will be terminated, the state Department of Human Services said in a statement. An initial hearing is scheduled for next week.

    To determine parentage, the department plans to ask the court to order the mother to submit to DNA testing. It will also seek DNA testing for the father, if a father is identified.

    Department Director Patricia McManaman said Monday that the full-term, 8-pound baby was born immediately before she was found. However, officials couldn't pinpoint an exact time of birth. The baby was doing well and drinking formula at the hospital, McManaman said, while police investigated the case as child abandonment.

    A woman who answered the phone at Simeona's home identified herself as her sister said she wasn't home.

    A spokeswoman for the human services department said officials had just learned about Simeona's arrest and didn't yet have any comment. The department had planned to file a petition this week with family court, seeking custody if no family came forward to claim the baby.

    Human services officials are informally calling her Baby Sandy.

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    Well, at least the baby still lives in paradise instead of having spinal cord cut.

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    Oct
    2012
    2:40pm, EDT

    Newborn boy abandoned in handbag survives chilly Texas night

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    CORSICANA, Texas — A newborn boy is stable and "doing fine" after being stuffed in a handbag and abandoned Sunday evening near a North Texas home as temperatures dipped into the 40s, authorities say.

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    Corsicana police have appealed for the public's help in identifying the infant and locating his mother.The baby was wrapped in a towel that was in a pillowcase inside a plastic bag inside a handbag, police said.

     
    The bag was left outside the house of Mihoko Brown and her husband. They live on the corner of a dead-end street off busy State Highway 22. Their cat, Stinky, started sniffing around the door, alerting the couple to the package, police said.
     
    "I put my ear to the door and heard something, and I barely opened the door and saw the bag,” Phillip Brown told the Corsicana Daily Sun. “I said, ‘Somebody’s left us a puppy in this bag.’ Then it started crying and I said, ‘This is a baby.’”
     

    "I was glad he had the energy to cry loud enough for me to hear," Mihoko Brown said, according to an NBCDFW.com report. "I was trying to make him quit crying. I just went, kind of swinging and holding him and singing a little bit."

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    Police Chief Randy Bratton said the baby, with umbilical cord still attached, was taken to a hospital.

    “He’s stable and appears he’s going to be fine,” Bratton told the Corsicana Daily Sun. "We’re very fortunate because it got pretty cold last night. If the baby hadn’t been found quickly there’s a good chance the baby might not have made it. But the baby’s fine."

    Forecasters say temperatures were in the upper 40s around the time the baby was found in Corsicana, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas.

    Police say the baby's mother may not have known that Texas has a Baby Moses law, which gives legal immunity to a mother who leaves an infant at any hospital, fire station or police station, the Daily Sun reported.

    Police have looked for the mother at area hospitals, and they also checked with local schools to see if she was a student.

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    When the baby is discharged from Navarro Regional Hospital, he will be placed in the custody of Child Protective Services, Bratton said. 

      
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    For the life of me I cannot understanding what people are thinking when they do this..there are so many safe places where these unwanted children can be left..there are also plenty of couples who would give their right arm to have this baby..I will not pretend to know what you may have been going th …

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