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My heart beaks

freddie*rooster — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:36:21 GMT

For that poor little innocent baby tossed away like a sack of garbage down the storm water drain. I can't get my head around how any Mother could do such a thing. Never having gone through PND I can't fogive her actions as a Mother wouldn't you call out for help before it came to this?

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punch*drunk — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:47:47 GMT

Tragic isnt it. The news stories keep mentioning a couple of countries that have "hatches" at hospitals where you can leave unwanted babies. It seems awful to think there is a need for such a thing but at least there wouldnt have been a baby so horribly discarded and a mother on attempted murder charges.

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cmcoins2000 — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:48:04 GMT

@freddie*rooster wrote:
For that poor little innocent baby tossed away like a sack of garbage down the storm water drain. I can't get my head around how any Mother could do such a thing. Never having gone through PND I can't fogive her actions as a Mother wouldn't you call out for help before it came to this?

Good morning Freddie,

Impossible to imagine what we can do to each other - fair boggles the mind.

The bub was not left somewhere to be found & cared for - but - virtually chucked away.

Throw away the key.

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azureline** — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:49:43 GMT

Poor bubby, so lucky he was found but I am not sure that he survived 5 days down the drain?

Some reports have said the mum handed herself in and the info came from her. Some said he was born in a hospital. Where is the father?

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freddie*rooster — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:51:02 GMT

Exactly helen, it's just something I can't understand. There are so many women who would give anything to have a baby and this women just tosses this poor little baby away to die.

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freddie*rooster — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:51:59 GMT

Yes where is the Father, does he even know it's his child?

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daydream**believer — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:52:42 GMT

I have no sympathy at all for the mother.

There is NO excuse at all for what she did to that poor baby.

If she didnt want the baby, there are other options than just throwing it away

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2106greencat — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:53:00 GMT

Depression can be dibilitating whatever the type, but I can't imagine being in such a dark place that I could not think of my own child and it's welfare.

As said, leave bub at a hospital, a doctors waiting rooms, hell, leave it in the aisle of Coles, but to throw.......

I can't imagine being in such a bad place, and how could no-one have seen the signs?

Truly tragic and unfathomable to me

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freddie*rooster — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:58:47 GMT

They say she came forward, but in other news they say she was found through Hospital records. One thing I do hope is the child goes to a loving family who will love, care and nurture him.

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cmcoins2000 — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:01:41 GMT

@2106greencat wrote:
Depression can be dibilitating whatever the type, but I can't imagine being in such a dark place that I could not think of my own child and it's welfare.

As said, leave bub at a hospital, a doctors waiting rooms, hell, leave it in the aisle of Coles, but to throw.......

I can't imagine being in such a bad place, and how could no-one have seen the signs?

Truly tragic and unfathomable to me

Not really that much time for PND to set in.

Bub is only a few days old.

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punch*drunk — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:08:04 GMT

I wonder if we will ever get the whole story. Where are any of her family I wonder? How do you give birth to a child and then get rid of it without friends or family noticing for several days, she is either very, very alone in this world or her family are aware of what happened, so why didnt they say or do anything? The whole thing is very hard to understand.

Doing family history research I often come across baptisms and registrations of foundlings. This is not a new problem, its been happening for centuries.

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polksaladallie — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:22:00 GMT

Safe Havens have been available in many countries for decades. As usual Australia is way behind the times in regard to the welfare of children.

If they were in place it would reduce greatly the child abuse statistics also.

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freddie*rooster — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:19:44 GMT

True Punchy, it makes me wonder how many innocent little babies have been discarded in similar circumstances. It was just fortunate those bike riders heard this poor little baby crying.

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Anonymous — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:22:57 GMT

incredible that the baby not only survived the

fall but the whole ordeal.

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debra9275 — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:29:05 GMT

it's so sad. I also can't imagine how a mother could do something like that. Surely, if she was in trouble, she could've turned to someone for help??

throwing a baby into a drain, with a 2.5 metre drop is just cruel.

I hope he is OK & is found a loving family, surely he can't go back to a dangerous situation like that

the mother is 30, is that right?

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polksaladallie — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:48:41 GMT

Abandoned newborn reignites debate over baby safe havens

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/abandoned-newborn-reignites-debate-over-baby-safe-havens/5913028

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polocross58 — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:49:56 GMT

Rats

Spiders

Flood waters

Animals

even a stray paedophile on the lookout for kids

Heat

Thirst

Hunger

Loneliness

Did the mother eat and/or drink while that baby lay there in the heat ?

Personally, I'm betting she did

Minute by minute

hour after dark, hot, hungry and thirsty hour

that tiny baby lay there

My opinion -- sterilize the mother in addition to pressing charges

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polocross58 — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:55:35 GMT

And let's not forget snakes, seeking somewhere dark and cool

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twinkles**stars — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:01:26 GMT

I'd like more information before passing judgement on what surely must be a result of mental illness. So very sad....left for 5 days seems unlikely.

PND can be dibilitating resulting in acts a mother would never consider when in a healthy mental state.

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icyfroth — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:02:33 GMT

What a little fighter, though!

Up to five days in a drain, dehydrated, cold, hungry, survived a 2.5 metre drop on concrete after being squeezed through a drain opening and still had enough strength to cry out loud for rescue!

Still looked nuggety enough in the pictures, no longer critical, now been pronounced stable.

I hope he finds a loving person to car for him.