A desperate mother has just abandoned her baby in a cardboard box in Alaska with a heartbreaking note from her saying she could not afford to feed the baby.
The baby was rescued around 2 p.m. on New Year’s Eve after Alaska state troopers responded to a report of an abandoned baby found, officials confirmed in a statement.
Fairbanks resident Roxy Lane discovered the baby, who was swaddled in blankets and cooing softly and posted a video of the note and the baby on Facebook.
“Please help me!!!” the note began. I was born today on December 31, 2021 (at) 6 a.m. I was born 12 weeks premature. My mom was 28 weeks when she had me. My parents and grandparents don’t have food or money to raise me. They NEVER wanted to do this to me. My mom is so sad to do this,” the note continued. “Please take me and find me a LOVING FAMILY. My parents are begging whoever finds me. My name is Teshawn,” the note reads.
EMS took the baby to a local hospital, and according to the state troopers, the baby was “found to be in good health.”
Lane said that she had discovered the baby in a cardboard box near a row of mailboxes by her home.
“I’ve been processing my feelings all day and running through all the different scenarios and reasons, with my bf and family, as to why something like this could have happened,” she wrote in the post.
Lane suggested that the child’s parents were young and are probably not aware of Alaska’s Safe Haven Law, under which parents can give up their unwanted children at a local hospital, church, or police, or fire station.
Lane pleaded with anyone who knew the baby’s mother to reach out, as she may be in need of medical attention or “might be in a desperate situation, feeling abandoned herself.”
“Clearly, someone in our community felt so lost and hopeless that they made probably the hardest choice of their lives to leave that innocent life on the side of the road with nothing but some blankets and a name,” she wrote in the post. “But she named him! There’s some love there, even if she made a terrible decision. Today I saved a baby and I’ll probably think about Teshawn for the rest of my life,” Lane wrote.
