Newborn baby boy survives 24 hours in armadillo burrow

[Siena]

timesonline.co.uk/article/0,11069-2398301,00.html

A NEWBORN baby was pulled alive from an armadillo’s burrow in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná 24 hours after being abandoned there by his mother.

Lucinda Ferreira Guimarães, 40, had gone to great lengths to hide her pregnancy, even when in her eighth month. She and her four children had recently moved in with a new boyfriend.

Police believe that on Sunday afternoon she went into a wood near her home in a poor area in Laranjeiras do Sul and gave birth there, hiding the baby before returning home.

Suspicious local women went into the wood after seeing Senhora Guimarães return to the neighbourhood with blood on her clothes. Though they found no evidence of the baby they continued with their search and the next day returned with a hunting dog, which found the baby.

 

[kevinsgirl]

Does Brazil have a safe haven law?

 

[Rawb]

Suspicious local women went into the wood after seeing Senhora Guimarães return to the neighbourhood with blood on her clothes.

Or:

Local women, guided by the guardian angel of the newborn and under the gentle pressure of Mother Mary…

 

[Chickamauga]

Doctors said heat from the heavy clay helped to keep him warm, but were still amazed that he suffered no harm from animals or insects.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands… - Isaiah 49:15-16