A colleague rang the office this morning to say that she was running late. Turns out that the reason for her lateness was a discarded child she had found by the roadside. Actually, the term "child" is adds years to this human life; it was an infant, a newborn, left by the side of the road.
You can predict the comments that would soon be flung raucously between the varying professionals or the general public; “this kind of lack of responsibility is endemic today”, “I bet she was a young Mum- they have no idea what there were doing”. All judgement, very little compassion.
I feel for the infant; laying in a basket, in some urine-soaked bus shelter but my mind does wonder what the parent/s must be thinking, what level of despair and confusion managed to inform and justify their actions. Social services, the Police and all the other state regulators that come under the term "multi-agency" have been informed and are on their way to have their first of many interactions with the newborn.
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