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Newborn with umbilical cord attached found in backyard

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A newborn boy who still had his umbilical cord attached was found in a Queens back yard this morning, cops said.

Gary Long woke up at his home on 132nd street in South Ozone Park at around 6 a.m. to what he thought was “a cat crying” in his back yard, only to discover the 4-pound naked infant on the cement, Long told The Post.

The baby appeared to be nearly full term.

“I went outside, and it looked like a doll laying there,” Long said. “Then it moved and started to cry, and I realized it was a naked baby with the umbilical cord still attached.”

Long yelled to his wife, Yolanda, to call 911 and brought the baby inside and wrapped him in a blanket and put him on a heating pad.

“The ambulance took a long time to get here, I didn’t want the baby to die in my house,” Yolanda said.

The couple couldn’t believe that someone would just dump the naked baby in the backyard.

“They could have at least put him in clothes or wrapped him in a blanket,” Gary Long said. “There’s cats, raccoons, anything could have gotten to that baby, they shouldn’t have left him in the yard.”

As to why the baby was placed in their backyard, Gary believes they might have been singled out on purpose.

“We sit in the yard a lot — maybe they thought we were nice people and we’d take care of the baby,” Gary said.

The baby was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he is listed in stable condition, cops said.

Police are investigating, and no arrests have been made.

Additional reporting by Antonio Antenucci

 

Source Article from http://nypost.com/2013/10/06/newborn-with-umbilical-cord-attached-found-in-backyard/

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