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No words! (Original Post) MoonRiver Mar 2014 OP
Great story. Thanks. William769 Mar 2014 #1
Do you have a link? Control-Z Mar 2014 #2
Yea, but the dog and the infant in the pic have been Americanized. (It wasn't them.) LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #5
Of course. DeSwiss Mar 2014 #8
Thanks. She's a beautiful dog. What a sweetheart. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #9
Thank you DeSwiss! Cali_Democrat Mar 2014 #13
Sweet loving mommy dog - what a heartwarming story. nt UtahLib Mar 2014 #3
Mighty fine, mighty fine! Hoyt Mar 2014 #4
wow. what a story. nt seabeyond Mar 2014 #6
'Every animal knows more than you do...' freshwest Mar 2014 #7
Humans are running around crazy. ReRe Mar 2014 #11
I thought that at first, too. But seeing it was a newborn, I suspect it was a teenager who had the freshwest Mar 2014 #12
I guess the reason I'm so touched by this incident... ReRe Mar 2014 #14
All In All, A . . FairWinds Mar 2014 #10
Well, that was nasty. Le Taz Hot Mar 2014 #15

Control-Z

(15,681 posts)
2. Do you have a link?
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 01:07 AM
Mar 2014

I would love to read more. Would love to see more pics if there are any. Great story!

K&R

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
8. Of course.
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 03:10 AM
Mar 2014


- K&R

''Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.'' ~George Orwell

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
7. 'Every animal knows more than you do...'
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 02:39 AM
Mar 2014
UPDATE: Dead Newborn Found Near Snoqualmie Called Baby Kimball Doe

February 20, 2014

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. (AP) -
As King County sheriff's detectives try to identify a newborn found dead near Snoqualmie they've started calling it Baby Kimball Doe.

Sgt. Cindi West says the name comes from the Kimball bridge near where the body was found Feb. 12 about 10 feet off a road. The baby was full term and the umbilical cord still attached.

The sheriff's office has released photos of two towels found with the body, hoping for tips from the public that would lead to identification. One is a faded Target brand black bath towel with a pattern of squares on one side and rectangles on the other. The other is a Chick Pea brand burping towel.


Short story, well within the 4 paragraph limit. Link is here:

http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/24779639/update-dead-newborn-found-near-snoqualmie-called-baby-kimball-doe

It was reported only this week on a local television station as a newborn baby boy. He was left alive in the snow and died from the cold.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
11. Humans are running around crazy.
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 03:41 AM
Mar 2014

... Do they have the law in Washington state where people can take their baby to the hospital and leave it, no questions asked? What a heartless desperate thing to do. That mother must not have a soul. There are probably many childless couples who would have adopted that baby right there in the same county.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
12. I thought that at first, too. But seeing it was a newborn, I suspect it was a teenager who had the
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 04:21 AM
Mar 2014
baby and was afraid for her parents to find out. The cord still being with the baby shows a girl/woman who delivered that child without any help. Possibly under that bridge. We don't know if she was coerced into leaving the baby there by the father or not. I doubt she thought she had any options.

Perhaps she was among the homeless in that area and a number sleep in impromptu places in the forests around there or hideouts where they try to get some sleep. There is a drug problem in the area.

The area has become more income stratified over time, with more wealthy landowners and exclusiveness and cut backs in social services.

Also the church influence is more conservative. That area is getting to be very Republican when it was once a nice area. I know a number of people who left because it had gone hard right socially.

Not saying people out there are that bad, but the attitudes out there have changed. And the woman or girl who had that baby was a victim of that. It's not like Seattle where there are social services available.

This person may have been disconnected from society. But my point was that a dog knows better than some people. At least the dog in the OP wasn't fooled by the people around it into giving up a life to survive in a crazy world. The dog was clear thinking.

BTW, it is legal to drop off a baby that is 72 hours or less at a hospital or fire station with personnel there. There is no penalty. But that area is in the country, and the mother may not have had a way to get there or was intimidated into not going for help.

For all we know, she may be dead.







ReRe

(10,597 posts)
14. I guess the reason I'm so touched by this incident...
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 05:33 AM
Mar 2014

... is the fact that I have identical twin great nephews who were 5 weeks premature and who are 5 months old tomorrow. They are little dolls, both the spitting image of their mother when she was a baby. Niece sends me text photos of them about every other day. Cute as buttons and spunky personalities just like their mother. Won't get my hands on them until this summer at family reunions when niece and hubby returns for a visit. The news of this poor abandoned baby just rips my heart out, as well as the plight of it's parents.

 

FairWinds

(1,717 posts)
10. All In All, A . .
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 03:28 AM
Mar 2014

pack of lies meant to distract us from the
predations of the ONE PERCENT !!
Seriously, please check your sources before posting.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
15. Well, that was nasty.
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 08:37 AM
Mar 2014

You couldn't keep that little comment to yourself? Keep this in mind, sunshine, what you put out into the cosmos is what you get back. If I were you, I'd duck.

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