Three babies, abandoned in the same park each a year apart, from the same mother.

[Nuttkase]

OROSI, Calif. (AP) — The first newborn was discovered swaddled in a blanket on an outdoor bench, an umbilical cord still hanging from his tiny body. Then, at neat 11-month intervals, two more abandoned babies were found in parked pickups in the same neighborhood.
This week, DNA tests established all three babies were almost certainly born to the same mother.

Now, in a heartbreaking mystery that has transfixed this central California farm community of 7,300, investigators are trying to find the mother and figure out what drove her to such desperate lengths.

"How can the relatives not see this girl pregnant, and then see that she's not pregnant anymore and not ask where's the baby? Somebody must know something," said Hortencia Espino, 81.

All three newborns were found within a two-block radius. The first two — a boy and a girl — survived and are now wards of the state.

The third baby was found dead of exposure on the cold night of Dec. 3. She was enveloped in a sweatshirt in the bed of a pickup parked near the high school, some 60 miles southeast of Fresno. The coroner concluded she was alive for less than a day.

On Wednesday, a Catholic church held a baptism and funeral Mass in Spanish and English for the baby girl, who was dubbed "Angelita DeOrosi," or Orosi's little angel.

Later, under the shade of a corrugated plastic awning, sheriff's officials and grandmothers delicately sifted handfuls of dirt onto her white coffin before it was lowered into the earth.

Marely Pena, who found the infant in her father's truck, cried behind dark glasses.

"I ask myself every day what if she had been alive. We could have saved her," said Pena, 25. "I just hope the mother comes forward to please just make us feel at ease."

Orosi, a town encircled by fig and lemon orchards, has long been the kind of place where everyone seemed to know each other. But that is changing, with new housing developments going up and a burgeoning gang problem that has led to a rise in violent crime.

As upset residents built makeshift shrines in honor of Angelita, authorities interviewed local women they thought might be involved. But DNA testing eliminated them as the babies' mother.

After exhausting all leads, officials are asking the community for help finding the parents and are offering a $5,000 reward. Police said the mother could face criminal charges. But they also said they want to make sure she doesn't do it again and isn't in some kind of distress.

Investigators would not speculate as to the reasons for the abandonment, such as whether the mother might have been a prostitute or a rape victim.

"Whether the mother is in a physical state of danger or a mental state where she feels she can't ask for help, our heart goes out to her," Karen Franzen, manager of Dopkins Funeral Chapel in Dinuba, which donated a casket and cemetery plot for Angelita.

The first deserted newborn was found on Feb. 10, 2005, a barely breathing boy with a body temperature of just 85 degrees. On January 8, 2006, a resident discovered a full-term baby girl inside a pickup two blocks away, clothed in an undershirt and pants.

On Monday, sheriff's officials announced the DNA results. The first two babies probably had the same father, but Angelita was fathered by a different man.

California and 46 other states allow parents to legally abandon a child at a hospital or other designated safe zones within 72 hours of birth, no questions asked.

Since California's law went into effect in 2001, parents have safely surrendered 182 babies at fire stations, emergency rooms and other safe havens, according to state officials.

"This little community is a family. We know pretty much everyone else's business and they know ours," said Eugene Etheridge, principal of Orosi High School. "It's concerning that this could happen again when the most precious thing we have is our children."

Source:http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-28-abandoned-babies_N.htm

Stupid fucking bitch. She should be shot.

 

[Music Nfluenced]

Those kids could have benefited from another women's loving arms. I wish Safe Haven laws could be used more often. That's why I feel bad for women that can't have kids. I feel even worse for the ones that can have kids and treat them like they never even had them.

 

[up2nogood]

DAMN

how someone gonna just leave they newborn out like that.....three times at that.....cold shit.....

 

[Syk0tic]

Lol I can probably find out who the girl is.
Obviously it's not a "southerner", they try to have as much kids they can to outnumber the nortenos around here lol.

 

[timebomb]

Dat shits no even remotely funny mayne...shits str8 fucked up

 

[dali]

reminds me of "Imprint"

 

[los-nssj408]

thats fuck up, stupid bitch i hope she gets what she deserves. she could have jus handed them over to an adoption agency or somethin.

 

[Gas One]

cant you drop newborns off at fire departments if you feel you cant hack it?

i was once told there was some sort of no-questions-asked law about that to encourage shit like this not happening at all

something like this happened up the street of my old neighboorhood, someone left a newborn baby wrapped up in a plastic bag in the back of a trash can and some drunk heard the baby crying

san diego residents might remember that happening in the brook and bieng one of the main reasons cameras got installed beyond the drug dealing

 

[noWetaG]

cant you drop newborns off at fire departments if you feel you cant hack it?

i was once told there was some sort of no-questions-asked law about that to encourage shit like this not happening at all

Yessir

California and 46 other states allow parents to legally abandon a child at a hospital or other designated safe zones within 72 hours of birth, no questions asked.

Since California's law went into effect in 2001, parents have safely surrendered 182 babies at fire stations, emergency rooms and other safe havens, according to state officials

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

cant you drop newborns off at fire departments if you feel you cant hack it?

Didnt you read the article?

 

[Gas One]

word up. thats the business....fuck letting a born child die in the cold.

i would take care of those 3 kids myself before i saw that happen...people who get caught doing that should get the death sentence

jesse, i really dont need the comments...i obviously didnt see that part holmes...forgive me for getting the gist of something.

 

[BIG DEEBO 559]

Three babies, abandoned in the same park each a year apart, from the same mother.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE A CORRECTION THESE BABIES WERENT DROPPED OFF AT PARKS THEY WERE LEFT IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD IN OROSI,CA ON PEOPLES DOOR STEPS THE LAST ONE THAT DIED LA ANGELITA DE OROSI WAS FOUND IN BACK OF A TRUCK BED IN FREEZING TEMPERATURE IN DEC 2006.I READ THIS IN THE FRESNO BEE ILL TRY TO POST IT.

 

[BIG DEEBO 559]

MY BAD 2 OF THE LAST BABIES WERE FOUND IN THE BACK OF A PICK UP TRUCK BED.THE FIRST 2 SURVIVED AND THE LAST ONE DIED THATS MESSED UP.

 

[Nuttkase]

Three babies, abandoned in the same park each a year apart, from the same mother.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE A CORRECTION THESE BABIES WERENT DROPPED OFF AT PARKS THEY WERE LEFT IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD IN OROSI,CA ON PEOPLES DOOR STEPS THE LAST ONE THAT DIED LA ANGELITA DE OROSI WAS FOUND IN BACK OF A TRUCK BED IN FREEZING TEMPERATURE IN DEC 2006.I READ THIS IN THE FRESNO BEE ILL TRY TO POST IT.

Yeah I ment the same neighborhood but for some reason I wrote park. By the time I noticed it wouldn't let me change the thread title.

Regardless, it's some sad shit.

 

[I AM]

I hope the mother gets cervical cancer. That bitch has no respect for life.