A mother has abandoned her one-day-old crying baby at the doorstep of a complete stranger along with a heartbreaking note explaining her actions.
The incident occurred in front of the home of Clive Petgrave who is based in the Willow Key Apartments in Orlando, Florida.
The police were called onto the scene when a concerned neighbor dialed 911 after hearing and seeing a crying baby at Clive’s doorstep.
“(Neighbor) said she was in the kitchen, making breakfast and she heard a baby crying,” Clive, who didn’t hear the baby’s cries, said in an interview with WFTV. “She said to herself ‘there should be no baby on this floor crying like that.’ And when she opened the door, she saw a baby.”
After the officers arrived at the home, they immediately took the one-day-old to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children for a check-up. They also questioned Clive and discovered a heartbreaking note the mother of the child attached before abandoning the newborn.
“Born at 5.45pm yesterday, July 19, 2019. I had him in the bathroom alone. His dad tried to kill us. Please keep him secret and take him to a hospital. Dad is a very dangerous man. I’m so sorry. I tried to feed him and clean him as much as I could,” the distressing note, which suggested that domestic violence was involved in the incident, read.
While the authorities confirmed that Florida’s Safe Haven law allows parents to drop unwanted newborns younger than one week off at fire stations and hospitals, they claimed it was illegal to do so at someone’s home.
It remains unclear whether the mother of the baby or the father will be charged after they are identified.
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