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Mother of boy abandoned at Walmart found
INDIANAPOLIS -- The woman seen on surveillance video leaving her 3-year-old son in a Frankfort Wal-Mart was taken into custody in Indianapolis Monday night, police said.
A tip led officers to the 1300 block of South East Street Monday evening. That's where police said they found Julia Ornelas (pictured), 39. She was taken into custody without incident.
Authorities said someone who had been watching the evening news recognized Ornelas and called them.
Police said Ornelas will be transported back to Clinton County, where there is a warrant for her arrest on suspicion of neglect of a dependent.
Surveillance video from June 13 inside the Frankfort Wal-Mart showed a woman -- thought to be Ornelas -- taking a boy later identified as Julian Ornelas out of a van and placing him in a shopping cart in the parking lot of the store before going inside. The woman wheeled the cart through the store and eventually left the boy there.
Julian Ornelas was found with a few diapers, bottles and a note that the woman left saying she could no longer care for the boy, who she called Martin.
Police said a tip last week from a family member in Texas, who had seen the story on a national news program, led them to identify the child.
Police said they eventually found the boy’s 18-year-old brother and pre-teen sisters living in Tipton County with a friend of Julia Ornelas.
Julia Ornelas had not been seen for two weeks.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/17093971/detail.html
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.
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08-05-2008 06:58 AM
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Well, the one positive thing is that at least she didn't kill him. Poor kid, it's bad enough to feel unwanted by your mom but to have it verified all over the nation has to be even worse.
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Originally Posted by
Jenefer3
Well, the one positive thing is that at least she didn't kill him. Poor kid, it's bad enough to feel unwanted by your mom but to have it verified all over the nation has to be even worse.
very true.........seems like she almost tried to do the right thing.......at least compared to some of the other moms we have seen in the news lately
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Originally Posted by
Jenefer3
Well, the one positive thing is that at least she didn't kill him.
That's what I was thinking too.
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Originally Posted by
Willow
That's what I was thinking too.
Sad that we have come to that way of thinking.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.
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Originally Posted by
LuvBigRip
Sad that we have come to that way of thinking.
I don't condone her leaving the boy in the store the way she did but there are so many mothers out there who have killed their children. I'm just glad she didn't go that route.
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Originally Posted by
Willow
I don't condone her leaving the boy in the store the way she did but there are so many mothers out there who have killed their children. I'm just glad she didn't go that route.
Oh, I know. I get the reasoning behind the sentiment. I just find it sad.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.
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Originally Posted by
LuvBigRip
Oh, I know. I get the reasoning behind the sentiment. I just find it sad.
I agree! It is sad. 
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They used to have places where you could bring your child if you were in this situation. My 77 yr. old mother used to volunteer at a "foundling" home in NY 60 yrs. ago. It was run by an order of nuns. They would take in children like this. They also had a large basket that they would leave outside the back door (backing up on an alley), full of baby blankets. Each night, a nun would sit behind that door and wait for the doorbell to ring. Mothers who couldn't keep their babies would leave them in the basket, ring the bell and run. The nun would give them a couple of minutes to get down the alley, then bring the baby in. That way, the mother's identity was protected and she knew her baby was safe. Sometimes, the mothers would leave notes, explaining their situation and saying they would come back for their child when things were better. (They would leave something by which to identify the child, which the nuns carefully preserved in the child's records.) And some actually did come back. I think that was a good way to do things.
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