: Newborn Baby (Umbilical Cord Still Attached) Found In A Cardboard Box On The Sidewalk In Philly

Philadelphia police are trying to track down the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned inside a cardboard box Wednesday morning. The discovery was made by a man doing some clean up near 27th and Huntingdon streets, in North Philadelphia. FOX 29′s Bruce Gordon reported live from outside the police department’s Special Victims Unit that the newborn was transported to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and is in good condition.

The baby girl has no obvious injuries or ailments, despite spending perhaps a couple of hours out in the elements. In this story, as in so many, timing was everything. Robert Taylor and his partner were cleaning up along North 27th Street around 10 a.m. when they noticed a cardboard box on the sidewalk. Trash collection was a day away, so Robert suggested they leave the box for pick up.

“And I ‘m saying, ‘Just put it with the rest of the trash and everything for tomorrow.’ It makes me feel as if I’m getting ready to dispose of a complete human body. It makes me feel just completely empty,” Taylor said. Taylor’s partner moved the box and received a stunning surprise. “He heard some noises, some crying inside. He eventually opened it up and found that there was a very newborn infant inside that box,” said SVU Lt. Anthony McFadden.

The little girl was just hours old and under 5.5 pounds, with the umbilical cord still attached. She’s believed to be Hispanic or perhaps a light-skinned African-American. Late this afternoon, police showed off what she’d been wrapped in: a sweater, a towel, a blanket and a bathrobe. Despite being outside for much of the morning, police say the infant is in good condition.

McFadden called it, “very lucky,” adding, “I mean, the conditions of the day, today, it’s cold out, dreary, wet.” The baby was discarded just outside a daycare center and just down the block from a church. But the mother’s actions do not qualify under Pennsylvania’s Safe Haven law. She could face criminal charges.

SMH at them describing the baby as “Hispanic or perhaps a light-skinned African-Americ