Texas police searching for man who left child
A family in Texas was out walking their dogs Saturday when they came across a newborn baby with its umbilical cord still attached wrapped in a towel and laying on the ground.
The incident took place in Katy, Texas, with the woman who found the baby explaining, “I noticed two little feet moving and then my husband was right behind me with the dogs and I yelled to my husband and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, a baby, a baby.’”
NEW: Couple finds an abandoned baby with the umbilical cord still attached on the side of a trail in Katy, Texas.
Pure evil.
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The husband called 911 and took the baby girl under a shady tree to get it out of the hot sun until help came.
CCTV footage from a nearby house shows a man setting the baby down on the walking path, as well as the moment the family came across the child and the police arrived.
The little girl was transported to a hospital and is in good condition, according to KHOU.
The woman who found the baby told the outlet, “I was shocked, I was mad, I was upset,’ she said of finding the newborn, adding that there are options for new parents who don’t wish to raise a baby. You can drop it off at a fire station, a police station, a hospital, I don’t know… but don’t leave the baby.”
A police officer with Houston PD’s Child Abuse Unit said, “The baby was a newborn… still had, you know, fresh placenta on the baby, so it was freshly born this morning.”
Law enforcement officers are searching for the person who abandoned the child.
