Newborn boy found abandoned in Wheaton

[Unamused Cat]

Chicago - A newborn boy was found this morning in west suburban Wheaton.

Wheaton Deputy Police Chief Tom Meloni said a resident found the infant with his umbilical cord still attached lying unclothed in a yard on the 800 block of East Michigan Street just before 8 a.m.

"He's brand new. Just born. Paramedics are checking him out now, but he appears to be in good shape. He'll be taken to a hospital for further evaluation, and our officers will canvass the neighborhood to find out if someone saw or knows anything," Meloni said.

He said the area is residential and that the infant was found in a yard near a garage.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/06/newborn-found-in-wheaton-yard.html

[curethispain]

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/06/newborn-found-in-wheaton-yard.html

Its nice to see some of the recent ones lately where the babies were actually ok.

[coffee achiever]

Its nice to see some of the recent ones lately where the babies were actually ok.

Warmer weather means they can survive longer outdoors. Improves the odds.

Of course, it also means more baby-locked-in-hot-car deaths, so it's a mixed bag, really.

[Valasca]

Fucking egg donor.
Another one too stupid to keep her legs CLOSED and too stupid to know there are safe havens.

[Silvahalo]

"He's brand new. Just born. ...that's right. He should be treated like the treasure he is....I'm glad someone found this treasure. At least he was in a yard and NOT in the trash like garbage.

Kisses sweet baby boy. I hope you are placed in loving arms to live in a loving home.

[Earth2Amanda]

He'll at least have chance to good home and loving family.

[Lynntoast]

They think they may have found mom already.

"The woman, whose identity was being withheld pending the outcome of the investigation, was receiving medical attention, according to the release."

http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1619809,stng-Wheaton-baby-found-in-yard-0612.article

[AngelFire]

Good, he was found and is alive. Keeping my fingers crossed that he will be placed in a loving home with parents that aren't douchebags.

SAFE HAVEN LAW PEOPLE...

[Cassandra]

Good, he was found and is alive. Keeping my fingers crossed that he will be placed in a loving home with parents that aren't douchebags.

SAFE HAVEN LAW PEOPLE...

If only more people heard of it

[Lynntoast]

Woman charged for abandoning baby in Wheaton

Nunu Sung, 24, of Wheaton, was charged with one count of endangering the health or life of a child and two counts of obstructing justice, according to a Wheaton police release.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1622771,w-wheaton-woman-charge-abadoning-baby-061409.article

[Jaded]

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[smallwonder4]

She got herself medical care and left her baby in the yard?? Can we spay her?

[coffee achiever]

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/1623049,mom-abandoned-infant-061509.article


A Wheaton woman charged with abandoning her newborn infant hid her pregnancy from relatives and left the baby outside after giving birth because she felt no "emotional connection" to the infant, DuPage County authorities said today.

Nunu Sung, 24, was ordered held on $100,000 bail during her first court appearance this morning.

...

He said Sung left the apartment around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, telling relatives she planned to take a walk, then gave birth early Friday behind a row of garages at the apartment complex, near where the little boy later was discovered.

"She placed the baby under a bush,'' Perkins said, pushed some dirt on the infant, then returned to her apartment. "She did not tell anyone she had a baby."

Wheaton police already had begun searching for the petite, dark-haired woman because her relatives had become alarmed when she didn't return home. They had contacted police around 1:45 a.m. to report her missing and officers already had started searching for Sung, Perkins said.

Police found Sung about 6 a.m. in her apartment, "where she appeared to be cleaning herself and some of her clothing."


She's from Myanmar and doesn't speak English, so that may account for her lack of knowledge about Safe Haven laws.

[Nell]

She acts like she took a shit, not gave birth. Language or culture differences aside, she was just fucking evil. I am so glad the kid lived. "pushed some dirt on the infant", that is so fucked up.

[Silvahalo]

I agree Nell, I don't care what culture/language your attuned too, she new that leaving that baby could mean certain death.

He said Sung left the apartment around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, telling relatives she planned to take a walk, then gave birth early Friday behind a row of garages at the apartment complex, near where the little boy later was discovered.

"She placed the baby under a bush,'' Perkins said, pushed some dirt on the infant, then returned to her apartment. "She did not tell anyone she had a baby."How the fuck is that this petite woman concealed her pregnancy and gave birth like she had a fuckn' Sunday stroll.....seriously, I want to know. I'm petite and damn, my first labor was 23hrs, I did not give birth in several hours heck, even 6 hours that is quick for a first time mother, and I'm assuming this is her first. Just seems these woman who don't want a baby have them anywhere, no assistance in little time and no complications...then woman who really, really want a baby just about die and that's with care from a doctor/nurses and hospital.

This sweet child should never be told he was left like yesterday's news in a yard. I really would like to read he is placed with people who dream of a baby.
Be loved and cherished sweet one in loving arms....
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg277/mcclainnancy/babies/asian_baby.jpg

[coffee achiever]

Don't misread me. I'm not making excuses for why she left the baby in the first place. Yeah, she knew the baby could die and she could be held responsible. But someone asked why people don't know about Safe Haven laws, and I was merely pointing out that of all the stories we see on here, THIS may be one of the few where the woman has a legitimate reason for not being aware of them.

Doesn't make her any less of an evil cow. Just makes her an uninformed evil cow.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A young woman--a refugee from Myanmar--imprisoned after giving birth to a baby boy in a backyard near her Wheaton apartment and then abandoning him is scheduled to be in DuPage County Juvenile Court today for a hearing on whether she should lose her parental rights.

Nunu Sung, 26, is serving a 3-year prison sentence for lying to police about what happened during the birth of her child two years ago.

A foster couple from Wheaton now raising the boy wants permanent custody. Sung is fighting that. No final determination is expected today.

In an interview earlier this month with the Tribune, Sung said she was consumed with fear and shame on the morning she secretly gave birth near a row of garages in Wheaton, then left the infant to fend for himself.

But Sung said she is the best person to raise her 2-year-old son when she is freed after serving her sentence for lying to police about being the child's mother.

"I don't want to talk about losing him," Sung said during an interview in the DuPage County Jail. "I am a good mom. I love my son."

In her first public statements since a neighbor found the abandoned infant whimpering and partially covered by brush in June 2009, Sung said she would never harm the child and believes she is worthy of a second chance.

Lawyers representing Sung and the court-appointed guardian for the child are at odds over whether Sung's parental rights should be terminated because of the way she abandoned her newborn. They also have argued over whether prosecutors reneged on a promise not to stand in the way of Sung winning custody of her child. The case is further complicated by her immigrant status and the risk of being deported when she is released.

An interpreter translated her Hakha Chin dialect during the recent one-hour interview supervised by her attorneys. They would not let her go into detail about the birth of the child, but Sung offered some insight into her difficult past and how she said it played a role in what happened.

At times tearful, Sung said unwed mothers are scorned and often face physical violence in the Southeast Asian country also known as Burma that she said she left four years ago to flee its military dictatorship. Her shame led her to hide her pregnancy here in the United States once she learned the father wouldn't marry her or help raise their child, Sung said.

"In our custom and tradition, it is the most shameful thing for a young woman without a (husband)," Sung said. "I never thought about hurting him."

The hospital staff named the newborn Joshua. But Sung calls him Cung Van Ni, which roughly translates to "up in the sky there is sun and the God's power."

Sung speaks like a smitten mother when describing him as, "handsome, healthy, athletic and lovely."

The boy has "all of my parts," she says proudly about the color of his eyes, shape of his nose or his joyful grin.

A judge granted Sung supervised weekly visits when Joshua was about 7 weeks old, but these all but stopped when she went to prison in October 2010. During their last visit July 5, he no longer recognized her, she said. It was the only time she had been allowed to see him since she was imprisoned.

Sung is eligible for parole in January. In exchange for her guilty plea, the DuPage County state's attorney's office dropped a misdemeanor charge of endangering the life of the child. It also promised not to interfere with Sung's goal to get her son back.

But the boy's court-appointed legal guardian petitioned the judge in Juvenile Court to terminate Sung's parental rights. In this case, it's the state's attorney's job to represent the legal guardian. So prosecutors are now arguing they have no choice but to follow the judge's order and support the petition. That led Sung's attorneys to ask a judge to find prosecutors in contempt.

Judge Blanche Hill Fawell dismissed the request, saying prosecutors acted in good faith and are required by law to support the termination petition.

Still, Sung accused prosecutors of not keeping their promise.

"I was put into the prison for the accusation of lying to police," she said. "But I have been lied to many times and no one suffers the same that I have been suffering right now."
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Her initial abandonment of the child and their long separation legally can be used against her. The child has been with the foster parents since he was released from the hospital after a short stay.
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More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-refugee-who-abandoned-newborn-fights-to-get-him-back-20110830,0,1559103.story

[Crymzen Vyolet]

Oh fuck that!

A Wheaton woman charged with abandoning her newborn infant hid her pregnancy from relatives and left the baby outside after giving birth because she felt no "emotional connection" to the infant, DuPage County authorities said today.
There's no way she should get that baby back! Never ever ever! She probably only wants him now so she isn't deported when she is released. Stupid bitch! The people who have been caring for and loving him this whole time should get custody him.

[Misskittychaos]

No way should she get this kid back. She suddenly "loves" him? Perhaps if she had of waited a while before throwing him away she could have lived happily ever after!

[AngelFire]

A foster couple from Wheaton now raising the boy wants permanent custody. Sung is fighting that. No final determination is expected today.

WTF???


"I don't want to talk about losing him," Sung said during an interview in the DuPage County Jail. "I am a good mom. I love my son."

Oh how touching. She left him to die and that was fine by her. Now he is in a loving home and she wants him back?? What if I send her a pet rock? She can rock it to sleep, yes I meant that. She can read it stories...BUT SHE CAN'T LEAVE IT TO DIE. Dumb bitch

[Whisper]

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Nunu Sung is in prison for obstruction of justice after abandoning her infant son in a neighbor’s yard in 2009. She is fighting for the parental rights to her son, who is currently in foster care.

Tuesday will mark a critical point in a refugee's fight to reclaim the child she bore outside a Wheaton apartment building in 2009, then left in a nearby bushy area.

DuPage County Judge Robert Anderson will rule on Nunu Sung's fitness as a mother, a decision that could either reunite Sung with her son or spur additional court proceedings that could result in the termination of her parental rights.

Anderson, who has presided over a hearing that began in early December, spent three hours Friday listening to lawyers argue over the events surrounding the birth of the Myanmar refugee's child on June 12, 2009, and whether Sung's actions should disqualify her from raising the child.

After delivering her child alone outside the apartment building where she was temporarily living with a cousin, Sung placed the child nearby and returned to the apartment. A neighbor discovered the infant, who was suffering hypothermia, and police were able to link Sung to the child.

"I don't know a good legal definition of cruelty, but I know it when I see it. And this was cruelty," argued Kathleen Anderson, the child's court-appointed attorney (and no relation to the judge).

Sung's attorneys said her shame over being an unwed mother led her to hide her pregnancy, but they also said she intended to return for her baby. Since then, Sung, who does not speak English, has been poorly treated by the child welfare system, attorney Terra Costa Howard told the judge.

"This has been a witch hunt from the beginning," Howard said. "This has never been about preserving a family."

Sung, 26, is serving a prison sentence for lying to police about the birth and is due to be paroled this month. Her child has been placed with foster parents who have said they would be willing to adopt him.

When Sung pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, she had an agreement that DuPage County prosecutors would not seek to end her parental rights. However, Kathleen Anderson, appointed by the court to represent the child's rights, filed a petition to terminate Sung's parental rights. By law, that brought prosecutors into the case.

Last month, Sung testified that she came to the U.S. from her native Myanmar via Malaysia in 2007 and settled in Texas. She became pregnant by a fellow member of her Haka Chin ethnic group. The father then refused to help her. She kept her pregnancy a secret and traveled to Wheaton shortly before the birth.

The pastor at the Chicago Chin Baptist Church testified Friday that unwed mothers are often ostracized in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.

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If the judge rules that Sung is unfit, there will be another hearing to determine what would be in the child's best interest, and the outcome could include ending Sung's rights as mother. If the judge finds that Sung is fit, the petition to terminate her rights would be dismissed.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-nunu-sung-update-0115-20120114,0,5410631.story

[HeatherHabilatory]

You're damn right it's a witch hunt. Cuz you're a baby murdering witch. Luckily, the baby DIDN'T die. But that was her intent when she COVERED IT WITH DIRT. Had she really been planning on coming back, she'd have made sure he was comfortable and safe until she could come back.

[Tundratot]

"I don't want to talk about losing him," Sung said during an interview in the DuPage County Jail. "I am a good mom. I love my son."What does she base that on? Her previous experience raising children? Based on her actions with this one, he'd be dead and she is no kind of mom to him.

A neighbor discovered the infant, who was suffering hypothermia, and police were able to link Sung to the child.She can't even say there was no harm done.

Sung is eligible for parole in January. In exchange for her guilty plea, the DuPage County state's attorney's office dropped a misdemeanor charge of endangering the life of the child. It also promised not to interfere with Sung's goal to get her son back. Isn't there another case where this promise was made? How stupid is it to make this promise? The entire case hinges on the parent's actions against the child and that cannot be ignored. The GAL/CASA has to be against reunification in a case like this. The child was raised from infancy by someone else -- someone who didn't try to kill him. His mother tried to kill him.

Sung's attorneys said her shame over being an unwed mother led her to hide her pregnancy, but they also said she intended to return for her baby. Since then, Sung, who does not speak English, has been poorly treated by the child welfare system, attorney Terra Costa Howard told the judge.

"This has been a witch hunt from the beginning," Howard said. "This has never been about preserving a family."Two points: (1) Not a witch hunt. A criminal hunt that led to the criminal right away. Her charges were reduced, even.
(2) She still doesn't speak English? What does this say about her ability to adapt to the mores and norms of this culture? The culture that no longer stigmatizes single mothers and that would have allowed her to raise her baby unmolested. What other possibly draconian (and illegal) Burmese tradition would she enact on this baby if she got him back?

[Aena]

A toddler would be better off with his foster family than with his mother, a Myanmar refugee who abandoned him outside a Wheaton apartment building, a DuPage County judge ruled Monday.

Judge Robert Anderson ended the parental rights of Nunu Sung, saying he would appoint a state guardian who would have the legal right to approve the child's adoption.


http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-07/news/ct-met-nunu-sung-0207-20120207_1_haka-chin-ethnic-group-nearby-bushy-area-parental-rights

[Mommyof2]

Hearing that little boy will never have to go back to his evil mother made my day.

[cubby]

Yay!!!!

They got it right this time!!!!