Firefighter and Paramedic who found the newborn and revived him.
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Baby Boy Found by Firefighters
Bond was set at $200,000 June 1, 2007 for Alsina Shelton 23, who was charged with the attempted murder of her newborn son. Cook County Criminal Court Judge Thomas J.Hennelly who set the bail for Shelton also set a preliminary hearing for June 6, 2007. Shelton is being charged with one count each of attempted murder as well as reckless misconduct, as reported by CBS.Firefighters who had been called to 4900 block of West Cortez Street around 6:00 p.m. to treat a woman who had been bleeding uncontrollably. Firefighters proceeded to ask Shelton if she had been pregnant, but she denied that she had been. Even with the denial, the firemen knew that they had to investigate further as reported by CBS.
Firefighters who had been called to the scene stated that the other people that were occupying the apartment were unresponsive and uncooperative. Shelton was then taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where after an hour or so told authorities that she had indeed delivered a baby inside of her home. She would not cooperate and tell them whether the baby had been alive or dead or what she had done with it as reported by CBS.
Once firefighters learned that Shelton indeed had delivered a baby, they immediately returned to the house on Cortez Street and starting searching for the newborn. After a few minutes of searching the apartment, firefighters found a tied up garbage bag under a pile of clothes with an unresponsive newborn baby boy inside as reported by CBS.
Firefighter Christopher Tolbert was passed the newborn who did an assessment on him and stated the baby was unresponsive and blue, as reported by CBS.
Once the assessment was done, Tolbert passed the newborn to paramedic Gregg Bagdade who told CBS "we provided four to five rescue breaths using a bag-valve mask. The baby began crying and pinking up". The baby was then taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, and then transferred to Children's Memorial where as of Thursday was listed in "good condition".
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I am so glad that they took action and passed out the leaflets.
Such a tragedy. Great article!
With Safe Haven laws now in effect, I will never understand why women do this. There is no excuse these days.
Agian wow, as a mother of four I just dont get how people can do this to thier own kids I know you understand that with all your kids running around =]
News like this makes you wish there were tests before you could be a parent.
Thank goodness the child survived. I wrote an article about safe haven laws for AC. I think it is very important to get the word out about these laws, because many who would use them are not aware they exist.
When I read things like this the mother in me just gets sick. I just remember those moments when they first put my babies in my arms. That is absolutely the best thing ever. To think that anyone could deliberately harm a newborn this way turns my stomach. Great reporting as always Jeane!
Great reporting. Such a sad story.
With all the people that would do anything to have a child there's sickos like this trying to harm them. Good reporting on a terrible situation.
Absolutely no excuse. Depraved and incredibly selfish. I was so glad to read that the baby was saved.
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