New Born Baby Decked In Rosary Found In Abandoned Drawer

A newborn baby boy who was left for the dead in a drawer of a discarded dresser has been found alive.

A passerby found the infant in the dresser drawer at around 8am on Tuesday, August 10, and called medical officials to the 2300-block of North Oak Park Avenue in Chicago’s Montclare neighborhood.

The Good Samaritan, who pleaded anonymity, said the boy was draped in rosary beads and his mouth was filled with vomit.

The woman said she was walking along the block when the dresser drawers caught her eye, reported ABC 7 Chicago. She approached the furniture, planning to recycle the handles on the drawers, and found the baby.

“I put my finger on the little foot, to just to see he was moving,” she told NBC Chicago.

The woman stayed with the baby until paramedics arrived and took him away.

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The child, who officials said was less than a week old, was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital, where he was declared to be in good condition.

“It’s a good thing somebody came by. It’s hot out there, it could’ve ended differently, but it’s all seemingly worked out,” Langford told the Chicago Tribune.

Reflecting on his parents’ decision to leave him in an alley in the middle of August, the woman who rescued the baby boy said: “Every time I think about the little details, it just makes me mad. So I’m just gonna focus on the miracle that I was there, and that everybody showed up on time…”

Officials said trash pickup was underway on Tuesday in the area where the infant was found. But it wasn’t clear if the dresser was close enough to the curb that it would have been carried by trash collection crews.

The Chicago Police Department is investigating and is seeking to identify the baby.

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