Authorities in Texas are hoping to find relatives of two young boys ages
9-month-old and 2-year-old left at a fire station by their mother.
The mother was seen arguing with the father of the kids near the fire
station on Monday, when the father told her he didn’t want the children
anymore, according to the Houston Fire Department.
The mother went to the fire station and told firefighters she was unable
to take care of the children alone. Firefighters told her she could
leave but she could not take the children with her because of the state
she was in. She left the children there.
“The firefighters saw that the children were under some duress so they
wanted to make sure they were comforted so they had some stuffed animals
on-site for them … they tried to make a very unpleasant situation as
pleasant as possible,” Kenyatta Parker of the Houston Fire Department
told ABC News.
When police and Harris County Child Protective Services were called in,
they tracked down the mother for questioning. Their names have not been
released.
Texas Safe Haven Laws, also known as Baby Moses Laws, allows parents to
leave babies 60 days or younger at fire stations, hospitals or EMS
stations. Neither child in this case fits that criteria. It is unclear
whether the mother will face charges, but Estella Olguin of Child
Protective Services says it is unlikely.
Child Protective Services says the children are in a foster home, and
their case worker is in court today seeking an official custody court
order.
CPS says it remains in contact with the mother but the father never came forward.
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