{"id":29676,"date":"2023-02-02T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=29676"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:32:52","slug":"florida-sheriff-names-abandoned-newborn-angel-grace-after-baby-found-alive-in-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/02\/02\/florida-sheriff-names-abandoned-newborn-angel-grace-after-baby-found-alive-in-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sheriff names abandoned newborn &#8216;Angel Grace&#8217; after baby found alive in woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She&#8217;s as beautiful as an angel. It&#8217;s by the grace of God she is not dead,&#8221; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpolkcountysheriff%2Fvideos%2F5876543485722628%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Florida sheriff named&nbsp;a newborn baby &#8220;Angel Grace&#8221; after she was discovered abandoned in the woods earlier this week, as investigators work to identify the person who left her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She&#8217;s as beautiful as an angel. It&#8217;s by the grace of God she is not dead,&#8221; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters. As of Wednesday morning, investigators were still working to determine who&nbsp;abandoned the baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies from the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call shortly after 1:45 a.m. Saturday about what sounded like &#8220;a baby crying outside&#8221; in a wooded area near the Regal Loop Mobile Home Park on Bailey Road in Mulberry, Judd said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commotion started late Friday into early Saturday, Judd said, when a neighbor heard what she thought was the sound of &#8220;some cats screaming and fighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The screaming subsided for roughly an hour and a half, until the woman &#8220;heard screaming and crying again.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She went outside and said, \u2018Well, that&#8217;s a baby.\u2019 So, she got her husband and the two of them searched around and out in the woods,&#8221; Judd went on. &#8220;They found this infant, this beautiful baby girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpolkcountysheriff%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0KMTQetkJmKi6iVYx41YAA1rBamDuFT3aP4roSWmWyN56haq55kMDmhnSE8sVQi9Kl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies arrived to find&nbsp;the baby girl on a hill near the mobile home park, wrapped in &#8220;some old blankets&#8221; and still attached to the umbilical cord and placenta. Judd named her Angel Grace Lnu, the latter part meaning &#8220;last name unknown.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities estimated the girl had been born roughly an hour before she was found, and weighed about six-and-a-half pounds. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fully developed,&nbsp;very healthy.&nbsp;Now has some insect bites for being in the woods at least an hour and a half,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We raced this baby to the hospital, and she is in exceptionally good condition. She is a beautiful child.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judd said the baby appears to be of Hispanic descent. Investigators canvassed the neighborhood for information about the baby\u2019s possible mother, but have so far had no success. The sheriff&#8217;s department also deployed a K-9 unit, a bloodhound, a drone and an aviation unit in its search for answers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Usually it\u2019s a younger person who does not want the child or has somehow hidden the presence of the child from their parents,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And now, they\u2019ve abandoned this child in the woods all alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked if he felt that the child was &#8220;left there to die,&#8221; Judd responded: &#8220;Absolutely.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This child was left, and it was in the low 50s. It was very cool that evening,&#8221; he said of the temperature. &#8220;But certainly, we saved this person from a homicide charge because had that child laid out there and died, then we would be talking about a murder investigation and now we&#8217;re not.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida has a Safe Haven Law that allows parents to leave their newborn babies who are under one-week-old at designated facilities without the threat of prosecution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s as beautiful as an angel. 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