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Tiny baby found ALIVE in a bag in a lake

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 17:04

Its just been on BBC news. Will find out more if I can.

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RTKangaMummy · 29/01/2006 17:05

Baby found in bag in Brazil lake

Authorities are looking for the baby's mother


Watch the rescue
Brazilian TV has broadcast footage of a baby girl being rescued from a black plastic bag floating in a lake.
Amateur footage captured the moment when the bag was fished out and opened by a park worker in Belo Horizonte.

Jose da Cruz, who was filmed performing the rescue, said he was first alerted to the bag by sounds of a "cat crying".

The baby, thought to be two months old, is said to be healthy, and is being kept in hospital while authorities search for relatives.

"I heard a sound of a cat," Mr da Cruz told television channel TV Globo. "But, between a child and a cat, the noise is the same.

"Then, the noise was increasing and it caught my attention."

Mr da Cruz said he then called security and a local cameraman, who happened to be filming in the area, filmed the baby being pulled out.

Eyewitnesses said that the plastic bag was floating attached to a piece of wood in the Pampulha Lagoon, one of the city's main parks.

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RTKangaMummy · 29/01/2006 17:05

I saw it too

it is a deffo brill story

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 17:05

That would be the story.. Did you see the rescue? She was tiny poor wee thing

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expatinscotland · 29/01/2006 17:06

I saw the clip of her rescue. The man who rescued her thought it was an animal and fished the bag out of the river. When he opened it up, the baby was inside, to his astonishment.

She is believed to be about 2 months old. I have a seven-week-old baby girl. Can't imagine what could drive a mother to put her in a bag and throw her in a river! Poor wee soul.

Luckily she is alive, healthy and recovering in hospital.

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RTKangaMummy · 29/01/2006 17:06

here it is and the video

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 17:07

Its stories like this that fuel my desire to adopt at least one baby from a country like that

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expatinscotland · 29/01/2006 17:09

Aw! She has that wee newborn face just like DD2! Made me go over to her just now and kiss her sweet face.

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hornbag · 29/01/2006 17:09

I've got tears in my eyes from watching that

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 17:09

from a country like that

No offense intended by that comment BTW. I mean from a country where sadly babies are abandoned for whatever reason on a regular basis.

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lockets · 29/01/2006 17:10

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RTKangaMummy · 29/01/2006 17:10

But for her to unharmed is amazing

but for the mummy

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 17:11

Its times like this I believe that there just might be something out there looking out for us, be it angels, god or whatever you believe in

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expatinscotland · 29/01/2006 17:12

I'd LOVE to adopt abroad! It's out of our means, but it'd be soooo awesome.

My aunt and her Indian husband adopted their third child and only girl from India. I remember when they brought her home. I was 11 and the whole family went to the airport to greet them and welcome the new baby. She was only 6 weeks old.

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Rhubarb · 29/01/2006 17:23

Who in their right minds would put a baby in a plastic bag and then dump it in the river??????

She was dressed in pink with a headband on, did you see that? Someone took the care to dress her, to buy those clothes for her, and then dump her in the river?????????? This is just awful. I hope they find whoever is responsible, because that person needs serious counselling and I just hope they haven't had more children or intend to have any more, because they're obviously not fit to parent a child!

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lockets · 29/01/2006 17:28

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 17:30

Part of me is wondering if she was kidnapped or something since she did look cared for. I know this is unlikely but I don't believe someone would dress a baby then try and kill it... Not in such pretty clothes in such a known poor country

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Rhubarb · 29/01/2006 17:34

Even in the darkest depths of my insanity during my pregnancy, even when I honestly believed that the baby inside me was a demon and I was possessed, if you gave me a real live baby there is no way I could have put that baby into a plastic bag, tied a stick to the bag and then dumped it in the river. Depressed women abandon their babies, but this required thought and a bit of planning.

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spacecadet · 29/01/2006 17:42

omg..how could anyone?....no, .. words fail me
thank god she is ok.

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RTKangaMummy · 29/01/2006 17:49

I have been thinking about her and just the thought of a kidnapping came to my mind too and was just about to post and saw thet you had had the same idea

Maybe a kidnapping that went wrong or were discovered and

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Hulababy · 29/01/2006 17:54

The poor poor; thank god she was found safe and well, before it was too late. The footage is something else - I can't iamgine.

Apparantly witnesses saw a woman throw the bag into the water

Who? Why? How?

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 18:23

RTKangaMummy you and me seem to be on the same wavelength tonight.. how strange

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bubblerock · 29/01/2006 18:54

I only just saw this on ITV - so shocked!! She looked lovely and had a nice outfit on etc... really strange!

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childern · 29/01/2006 18:56

doesn't really matter what happens in life children aren't asked to be born all they ask for is lots of love @ attention, its crule.

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Stylish · 29/01/2006 19:07

I'm reserving judgement about the parents etc until more is known. The main thing is the babe was found in time and is alive and healthy

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katzg · 29/01/2006 19:12

i'm totally amazed the child was unhurt.

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