[News headline:] “Newborn baby found in Bi-Lo Center toilet.”
It’s a terrible headline to absorb because it describes a terrible horror: A pregnant mother walks into an arena bathroom during a performance of Ringling Bros. Circus on a Friday night, delivers a 6-pound baby boy into a toilet, and leaves him to choke and freeze in the cold, dirty water.
Amazingly, a cleaning crew found the baby alive but suffering from hypothermia. The workers administered life-saving aid until paramedics arrived, and doctors upgraded the newborn’s condition from critical to good within five days.
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Now a deeper question: Why should every man, woman, and child identify with this abandoned baby boy?
Click here to read how this is answered.
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