Baby Found Tossed From Car

Yizuman

Absolutely shocking.........

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEWBORN_TOSSED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Why would anyone want to throw away a beautiful baby out of the window of a car is beyond me!

Yiz

Dismembered

I saw that it was awful. Some would say "It's because we are living in the last days", Or "See it's the time of the end"

Dismembered

jeanniebeanz

Yeah, I heard about this on the news this morning. There is now doubt about whether or not the people really threw him out the window. It's on the news right now...

If they did do that, they are really sick people. I don't know why they didn't just give the baby up at a fire station or hospital if they didn't want it. Why make up some BS story to cover? It makes no sense.

Jean

simplesally

Turns out she fabricated the story to hide the fact that it was her baby. Baby is safe and was never thrown from a car. Mom is in for psychiatric evaluation.

Gopher

Here's the news story about the baby NOT being tossed from the car.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050211/ap_on_re_us/newborn_tossed Woman Makes Up Story About Tossed Baby

1 hour, 1 minute ago

U.S. National - AP

By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The woman who claimed to have seen a baby being tossed from a moving car fabricated the story as a cover to abandon her newborn and hide an unwanted pregnancy from her family, authorities said Friday.

"It's not as horrible as we first thought," Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne said. "The baby was never thrown out of a moving car. This is the

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"It's not as horrible as we first thought," Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne said. "The baby was never thrown out of a moving car. This is the case of a disturbed woman who gave birth and did not want to keep her child."

Jenne said the woman, identified as Patricia Pokriots, 38, kept her pregnancy a secret from her family and others, She had planned to take the baby to authorities, then built her story around seeing two people in a large white sedan arguing. "One story built upon the other," Jenne said.

The child was born Thursday afternoon, about an hour before being dropped off by Pokriots at a Broward sheriff's substation in North Lauderdale, about 15 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale, Jenne said.

"She has indicated that she does not want the child," Jenne said.

Pokriots may face a charge of filing a false report, but has not been otherwise charged, Jenne said. She was committed for psychiatric evaluation under the Baker Act, which allows for people who are a threat to themselves or others to be held for 72 hours.

Pokriots is a barmaid and has an arrest record including an aggravated battery charge. "She said she may be a threat to herself," Jenne said.

The 8-pound, 2-ounce boy, whose umbilical cord was still attached, survived with minor injuries and was hospitalized in good condition Friday at Broward General Medical Center. Nurses at the hospital have nicknamed the child Johnny.

Jenne said county officials have been flooded with calls offering everything from teddy bears to college funds, and has even received requests to adopt the child.

"The one good thing that comes out of this is there is a great love for this child," Jenne said.

Pokriots originally told investigators she saw a man and woman arguing in a car, then witnessed the woman tossing the child from the passenger side of the vehicle. Eventually, investigators found inconsistencies in her story and she acknowledged Friday that she concocted the story. Jenne said.

State law allows a mother to take a baby to any medical facility or fire station within the first three days the baby is born without any questions asked.

"That provides parents or women with an option. You don't have to just abandon your child in way that would endanger his or her life," said Veda Coleman-Wright, a sheriff's office spokeswoman.

JustTickledPink

The idea that you can drop off your child that is unwanted to a police or fire station, as cruel as that sounds, was made to protect the babies out there that have been thrown into dumpsters or just abandoned as trash. The person who does this faces no legal/criminal charges. Yes, it might be immoral but at least the baby stands a chance at life, rather than death in a dumpster.

She does sound mentally unstable though

Doubtfully Yours

According to CNN.com they found the mother.

I hope her and the 'so-called' father get brought up on charges. Evil, evil people!

DY

Seeking Knowledge

I'm glad to hear the baby wasn't thrown out a window, at least his "mother" had the decency not to chuck him in a dumpster or leave him somewhere to starve. I will go home & kiss my kids tonite. I couldn't imagine not wanting my child to that degree.

kaykay_mp

I certainly don't see why you would want to throw a beautiful little boy like that out of a car window. If the mother was having that much of a problem keeping the baby, she should have brought it to a hospital. Things are hard for me as a single mom, too, but when both of my little ones were born, I fell in love with them and couldn't imagine hurting them like that.

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Yizuman

I'm just glad the story was a hoax and the baby is doing fine, little "Johnny" as the nurses calls him is so adorable.

For every unwanted baby, I wish I had all the money in the world to adopt them and raise them as my own, with hired help of course.

I just wish there was something we could do for the past babies that died in the past in trash cans and so forth.

2 years ago, a baby was found frozen to death across from the emergency doors outside of the hospital, a bad placement where the baby went unnoticed until it was too late. How horrible for the baby to die alone.

It makes me angry to no end how human beings could mistreat babies all over the world.

Yiz

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