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9-year-old Indiana girl finds abandoned baby in her backyard

Lowell is about 50 miles south of downtown Chicago.

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“It just freaked me out. I didn’t know what it was”, she told CBS Chicago.

Elysia meanwhile is being called her ‘guardian angel’.

“Mom. There’s something in the yard.”

Officers in Lowell, Indiana, are investigating the discovery Monday of a newborn wrapped in a black towel with the umbilical cord and placenta still attached. Her umbilical cord and placenta were still attached.

‘I thought it was a robotic doll.

Heidi wrapped up the newborn baby with a blanket, and ran inside to call the authorities.

Police are calling the infant “Miracle Jane Doe”, the outlet reports. She was taken to a nearby hospital and evaluated. The effort was led by Monica Kelsey, a volunteer firefighter and antiabortion advocate who was abandoned as an infant by her teenage mother. The child will be placed in foster care. Police said all calls will remain strictly anonymous.

Indiana’s Safe Haven Law allows parents to leave a child between 1-30 days old anonymously at a hospital emergency room, fire station or police station without fear of arrest or prosecution.

The laws he is talking about are the Safe Haven Law. Over a 10-month period that year, 13 babies were abandoned in the city of Houston.

Elysia Laub, 9, thought one of her family’s baby pigs had escaped from its pen when she saw something small and pink that was crying and kicking its little legs in the backyard of her home.

“I really think everyone needs to say a prayer for this mother”. The spot where she was found is about 100 yards from the closest road.

“I didn’t do this myself”.

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Whe Laub first discovered the baby, she was not sure what she had found. “God. He put me in that place”.

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