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    Baby found abandoned outside Calif. gas station

    LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a passer-by has found an abandoned newborn baby outside a gas station in Southern California.

    Police spokeswoman Lisa Massacani says the discovery was made at around 7:30 p.m. Monday, at a USA Gas station near downtown Long Beach.

    City News Service reports the passer-by took home the baby girl and called 911.

    Massacani says the infant has been transported to a hospital, where her vital signs are stable. She says it appears the baby was born within the past day or so.

    Massacani says a felony child abuse investigation is under way for putting a child in a situation that could cause death.

    California law allows for an infant 72 hours old or younger to be surrendered at any hospital emergency room, or additional site designated by county boards of supervisors, such as fire stations.

     

    50 comments

    • KristL  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  3 mths ago
      Another one? Just happened here, only she left him under a tree in a yard (40*, wrapped in wet towel). It's so easy to NOT get pregnant in the first place, if you DON'T want a baby, get some FREE birth control. Quit leaving newborns out to die, too many people would LOVE to have them.
      • mia 3 mths ago
        In the midwest where temps are cold, you would think they would find a hospital, fire station, or police, but people get scared. She/they probably knew there were people nearby.
    • OuterLimits  •  3 mths ago
      You know, if you guys would stop saying anything and promising everything in the neverending mission just to get your wick wet, maybe stuff like this wouldn't happen so often. This is men's responsiblity, too. Why don't YOU keep it in your pants?
      • Tiffany 3 mths ago
        just because a man gets a girl pregnant does not mean he is to blame for a mother making the choice to abandon a baby, that is no excuse she willingly had intercourse. thats what's wrong with some women today. Why is it we blame men when getting pregnant. no one said she had to have intercourse she made that choice, just like SHE made the choice to abandon an innocent baby. surely just because the guy got her pregnant does not have anything to do with her being such a horrible mother and leaving or giving up a baby in such a way
      • GM 3 mths ago
        It's a two way street. If you can't be accountable to the results, you can't be ready to participate in the actions. This applies to BOTH parties.
      • Firecat 3 mths ago
        Tiffany, you don't know that the mother of this child was willing. She could very well have been raped.
    • Gem21  •  Pendleton, Oregon  •  3 mths ago
      At least the person did not take the life of this child, altho the end result cvould have been worse if the "passerby" had chosen to look the other way....... Thankfully the Child will survive..............
    • Jesus Saves.  •  3 mths ago
      With Churches, police stations and hospitals that will take the baby no questions asked, there is no excuse for this.
      • Marie 3 mths ago
        Except ignorance. The message should be given in every school on a weekly basis, and posted in all public restrooms. Yeah, even the men's -- some of the time the boyfriends know what's going on with these *secret pregnancies* and even assist in *dealing with the problem*.
      • my friend2 3 mths ago
        many young girls do not know the law. The schools that have sex educations programs and not getting the message across!
      • Jesus Saves. 3 mths ago
        They know the law. They don't trust the law. They believe they will still be prosecuted.
    • dadsonpowermode  •  West Valley, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Great to hear this baby was found alive, my hopes and prayers for this little girl to be adopted by a caring family and for a brighter future for her.
    • Joe  •  3 mths ago
      BIRTH CONTROL would have prevented this.
    • Son Of Satan  •  Southfield, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      Gas is so expensive you have to give them your first born child.
    • Captain Spaulding  •  Tafton, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      Better than the goober couple up here who crushed the newborns skull with a cement block.
    • Pamela  •  San Diego, California  •  3 mths ago
      well at least the mother wasn't a total idiot like all these other ones we are hearing about and kill her baby then dump it. She knew somene would find it.. sad though she could have just taken it to a hospital.
    • SANPLO  •  3 mths ago
      I dont understand these women who just abandon these babies ! SO SAD!!
    • MysVarnado  •  Hattiesburg, Mississippi  •  3 mths ago
      I wish I had that baby to love. Now it undoubtedly is going to begin a long journey through the "system". I would have just taken her home and loved her dearly. It would have killed me to call the police and hand her off once again. Going from hand to hand is very risky now-a-days. A few of those sets of hands could belong to monsters.
    • Geno  •  New Orleans, Louisiana  •  3 mths ago
      Gas used to cost an arm and a leg,,,Now babies too!
    • L  •  3 mths ago
      JUST BRING THE INNOCENT TO A HOSPITAL/POLICE/FIRE STATION. How friggin' hard is it to give the child a CHANCE?
      • Joe 3 mths ago
        Park her on the doorstep of Goldman Sachs. She might get lucky and be raised by a zillionaire.
      • Robert 3 mths ago
        Undocumented mother? Terrified of Immigration.
    • PurgeDC  •  Lakewood, California  •  3 mths ago
      Drove by this station yesterday and on occasion. Ghetto by the sea.
    • Cher  •  3 mths ago
      The story is not updated. The 28 year old woman gave birth to the baby, took it home and gave it to her mother, who made up the story that she found it at a gas station. At least that's the latest.
    • KBQ  •  3 mths ago
      People are sick.
    • Noir  •  Pleasanton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Same old soup, different pot. The only difference is that you have the internet to spread the news, and now people can vent their dump comments.
    • trickytrunk  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      if i have seen anything i know the end to this story of earth so not worried.
    • Krissy  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  3 mths ago
      sterilization anyone?
    • Hilary  •  3 mths ago
      Maybe the person thought he/she would be recognized at the hospital?
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