Newborn baby found on beach in Hawaii
A newborn baby who’s mother is HIV positive is checked by a nurse before being given antiretroviral drugs.
A newborn baby was found naked and crying on a beach in Hawaii on Sunday night.
The 8-pound baby girl was “abandoned immediately after birth” on Sandy Beach in east Honolulu.
Luckily for the infant, a woman had gone to the beach for a midnight stroll. The woman told police she heard “several people screaming” on the beach.
The concerned woman walked towards the crying and found the full-term baby lying on the near the water’s edge, naked and alone.
The woman, nothing short of a Good Samaritan, took the baby to hospital where she is “doing well.”
Authorities are now searching for the mother, who could be prosecuted for endangering the welfare of a child and abandonment.
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