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ALASKA (WSYX) — A woman in Alaska says she discovered an abandoned baby with a heartbreaking note attached stating the parents didn't have the money to feed the newborn.
Alaska State troopers responded to a report of a baby found in an abandoned cardboard box around 2 p.m. on New Year's Eve.
Roxy Lane, who found the baby, posted a video on her social media page of the note and the baby, that was swaddled in a blanket.
Please help me!!! the note read.
I was born today on December 31, 2021 (at) 6 am. I was born 12 weeks premature. My mom was 28 weeks when she had me. My parents and grandparents don't have food or money to raise me. They NEVER wanted to do this to me, the note said.
"My mom is so sad to do this. Please take me and find a LOVING FAMILY. My parents are begging whoever finds me. My name is Teshawn."
Lane found Teshawn said she discovered the baby at the row of mailboxes by her home.
"I've been processing my feelings all day & running through all the different scenarios & reasons, with my bf & family, as to why something like this could have happened," Lane said on Facebook.
She suggested that the parents were young & probably unaware of Alaska's Safe Haven Law. Under the law, parents can give up their unwanted children at a local hospital, church, or police, or fire station.
She pleaded with anyone who may know the mother to reach out, because the mother may be in need of medical attention or "might be in a desperate situation, feeling abandoned herself."
"Clearly, someone in our community felt so lost & hopeless that they made probably the hardest choice of their lives to leave that innocent life on the side of the road with nothing but some blankets & a name. But she named him! There's some love there, even if she made a terrible decision."
Baby Teshawn was taken to a local hospital where he was found to be in good health, the Alaska State Troopers said.
"Today I saved a baby & I'll probably think about Teshawn for the rest of my life," she said.
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