Another baby found in a Timberland shoe box

Baby shoe box photos from KidsDesignerWear-UK. (This is not the box in which the baby girl was found in Hempstead, and is only shown here for illustration purposes & for flat-footed irony.)

Yep. This is the second time I’m quoting a Daily News story about a baby in a Timberland box. (The earlier story was from September of 2007. See: Packaging and Moral Turpitude.) 

The girl was less than a day old when she was discovered by a man who heard a noise and peeked inside a Timberland work boots box around 9 p.m. Sunday in Hempstead, L.I.

Baby, less than a day old, found in shoebox in lobby of Long Island apartment building
The NY Daily News, 6/22/09

And from the NY Post:

A newborn baby girl was found alive in a Timberland shoebox in the entrance to a Long Island apartment building, police said today...

A breathing hole had been cut in the middle of the lid.

NEWBORN ABANDONED IN LI BUILDING
The NY Post, 6/22/09

Poor Timberland. Some news reports just say “shoe box,” but most of the reportage makes a point of including this key, brand-name detail. Is this just to give the story verisimilitude?  Or is it a commentary on the mother’s values? As if to say: “Look, she can afford to buy expensive Timberland boots, but she can’t afford to take care of her child.”

Comments

[Dianne]

How do you know the box belonged to the mother or that the mother placed the child there?

[Randy Ludacer]

Diane, Thanks for your comment. You make a very good point about any assumptions we (or the media) might make about the origins of the box. (We don't know who's wearing the shoes that came in that box.) It seems likely, however, that it was the mother who made the painful decision of leaving the baby somewhere to be found, don't you think?

[baby bows]

Whether she can or cannot afford to buy expensive shoes, she shouldn't have left the child. We know there are people who really cannot control themselves but I hope they learn to be responsible.

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