Newborn baby with umbilical cord freshly cut abandoned in 33C heat
A NEWBORN baby which was only hours old was dumped on a door step in Pennsylvania in searing 33C heat yesterday.
The little girl was found in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia, by locals wrapped in a blanket with its umbilical cord freshly cut on Tuesday 12pm.
Thomas Daley told Fox 29 that he was astonished to return home to find the “beautiful baby” outside his door.
He said: “To come home from work in the middle of the day and find a baby on your back steps is just crazy.
“She was right there between the door and the screen.
It was Thomas’ neighbour Terrell Phillips who alerted him to the child on his porch amid scorching 33C (93F) heat yesterday.
Thomas continued: “He said, Mr. Tom what is this?’ I said, ‘What you are talking about?’ So I walked back, and he said there’s a baby here. I said, ‘A baby?’ It is a baby.
“She started crying. I picked her up and held her. It felt good, as a parent, holding this child.
“She stopped making noise and she became very quiet.”
Thomas immediately called police.
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Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood believes the baby was only born hours before Thomas and Terrell found her.
He said: “Six or seven hours old, umbilical cord cut, wrapped in a white blanket or towel and apparently cleaned up.”
Chitwood told CBS that the mother was most likely a young girl “probably 13, 14, or 15 years of age.”
Police are looking for CCTV footage in the area for clues as to who dumped the baby.
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