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Couple recountsfinding infant; police begin search for motherBy HEATHER LOUGHLEYStaff Writer Marcus and Felecia Jones were seated in their car about to head to the doctor’s office Monday morning when Marcus decided he needed his ice scraper from his truck.He opened the truck door to see what he thought was his 6-year-old daughter Beth’s baby doll on the front seat.Marcus Jones“Then I reached in to move it, and it was alive,” Jones said.The “doll” was an abandoned newborn baby girl, just a few hours old and wrapped only in a towel.“The next thing I know I cradled it and turned to her (Felecia) and said, ‘There’s a baby in the truck.’ ” he said.Jones, 608 Oakland Ave., Perkins Township, almost feared the shock of the discovery would send his wife, herself pregnant and two weeks overdue, into labor.“It’s amazing. It was just by coincidence I got in my truck. I could have just put on the defrost. It was just by chance I got out,” Jones said.“Someone’s really watching out for that little girl,” he said.The six-pound, eight-ounce infant was three to four hours old and had a body temperature of 84 degrees when found butappears to be healthy, Fire-lands Community Hospital officials said.The Erie County Department of Human Services has taken temporary custody of the baby, said Director Judy Englehart. The baby will be placed in a foster home once she is• See BABY, Page A-2
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Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Tue, Mar 12, 1991
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