Newborn found in box near school
BY MATTHEW NICKERSON
Daily Herald Staff WnLer
A newborn girl was found abandoned
Thursday in a Woodndge
school parking lot, police said.
Four teen-agers found the baby
lying in a cardboard Marshall
Field's box at 6pm., police said.
The box was outside St. Scholastica
Catholic Church, 7800 Janes
Ave
The infant is Caucasian and has
dark hair, police said. She was less
than 24 hours old when discovered
She was found wearing a light
blue-green, button-up sleeper
suit and was wrapped in three
towels.
The teens called their parents,
who notified authorities.
The baby was taken to Edward
Hospital in Naperville, where she
was doing well late Thursday, a
hospital spokeswoman said.
"We're calling her Baby Jane
Doe. She's beautiful. She's pink.
She's a very pretty little girl," said
the spokeswoman.
The Illinois Department of Children
and Family Services has taken
temporary custody of the baby.
Police spent Thursday trying to
find the infant's parents.
Several clues exist:
• The infant's umbilical cord was
crudely cut, leading police to think
the mother had given birth at
home.
• A1968 shipping label was pasted
on the Marshall Field's box. It
was addressed to an Oak Brook
house.
The baby was abandoned before
5:20 p.m
That's when bystanders first remember
seeing the box sitting in
the parking lot
Officers canvassed the neighborhood,
trying to find residents
who had seen the box dropped off
The DuPage County Sheriffs bloodhounds
were called to the scene to
try to track the scent of the person
who abandoned the infant.
No success was reported initially

Source: Daily Herald 4-8-1984