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(Times photo by Mike Silva)
Abandoned infant rests comfortably in LSU Medical Center pediatrics ward
Newborn boy found in carport
By RAY WADDLE
Of The Times Staff
The last thing Mrs. Don Rogge expected when she went
through her carport Tuesday morning was to find a baby.
But she did — a quiet, forlorn 36-hour-old boy, wrapped
only in a towel and in excellent condition. And she found a
note pleading that the discoverer find him good parents and
see to his needs.
The baby, who weighed about 7 pounds, was discovered
just before 10 a.m. in the corner of a garden tractor
attachment as Mrs. Rogge of 9455 Red Oak Lane was
getting into her car.
How long the baby had been left there can only be
speculated, she said. Her husband had left in his own car
about an hour before the discovery, but he would not
necessarily have noticed the baby, she said.
She took the infant indo^.., and called the Caddo Parish
Sheriff's Department.
Deputies took the child to LSU Medical Center, where it
was estimated he was 36 hours old and in excellent physical
condition, despite a lower-than-normal body temperature.
The infant is in the hospital's pediatric ward.
According to Caddo Sheriff Don Hathaway, a neighbor-hood
check revealed there were apparently no witnesses to
the abandonment of the baby.
"It's strictly an assumption, but we think it was a young,
probably unwed, mother who disposed of the infant in such
a way that it would be found," Hathaway said yesterday.
What frustrates the parish's efforts to find the parents,
the sheriff said, is that the baby is anonymous. In all
likelihood, there exist no medical records attesting to the
infant's birth that authorities can refer to.
"We probably have to assume the baby was not hospital-delivered,
if only because hospitals usually keep newborns
longer than 36 hours," the sheriff said. "On the other hand,
if the baby were home-delivered and without the help of a
doctor, there would be no record of birth."
The parish's best chance of finding the parent, he said,
will come only when a concerned citizen comes forth with
information.
According to Chief Deputy D. M. Almond, the mother's
obviously lighter condition after giving birth may lead
friends or relatives to Caddo authorities, once suspicion of
abandonment becomes strong.
Almond said the abandonment was only the second in the
Caddo-Bossier area that he can remember in his 17-year
law enforcement career.
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| Title | Newborn Boy Found in Carport |
| Creator |
Waddle, Ray Silva, Mike |
| Subject |
Abandoned children Infants Louisiana State University Medical Center (Shreveport, La.) |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1982-02-24 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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