CA: Woman Leaves 3 Babies in Park over 11-Month Period

via cnn.com

OROSI, California (AP) -- The first newborn was discovered swaddled in
a blanket on a park bench, an umbilical cord still hanging from his
tiny body. Then, at neat 11-month intervals, two more abandoned babies
were found in parked pickup trucks in the same neighborhood.

This week, DNA tests established all three babies were almost
certainly born to the same mother.

Now, in a heartbreaking mystery that has transfixed this central
California farm community of 7,300, investigators are trying to find
the mother and figure out what drove her to such desperate lengths.

"How can the relatives not see this girl pregnant, and then see that
she's not pregnant anymore and not ask where's the baby? Somebody must
know something," said Hortencia Espino, 81.

All three newborns were found within a two-block radius. The first two
-- a boy and a girl -- survived and are now wards of the state.

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How about LEAVING HER ALONE instead of launching
a puritanistic witch-hunt ??? She didn't put the
babies in a dumpster or try to flush them down the
toilet, she put them in a public place where they'd
be found immediately and taken-care of. Good for her.
Leave it at that.

Some states have laws that say women can leave babies
at certain designated places - fire stations for example -
and a don't-ask-don't-tell rule is in effect. Nobody
there is allowed to ask who you are, nobody is allowed
to tell if they happen to know already. Maybe "enlightened"
California does NOT have such a law ? Or, perhaps, the
town is so small that privacy cannot be guarenteed ?

Wouldn't hurt to have a public-service announcement
aimed at ALL women though, explaining the existence
of BIRTH CONTROL pills.

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