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FOUND ON BROOKLYN ROOFTOP By Lindsay Faber, Staff Writer A 12-year-old girl chasing her dog to the roof of her Brooklyn apartment building yesterday discovered a naked baby boy who had been abandoned, police said. Yashima Williams ran up the stairs of her building in the Red Hook Houses in pursuit of Princess, her pit bull, about 5:30 p.m. when she discovered that her dog was furiously licking something that had begun to squeal. "I went to see what my dog was licking and that’s when I saw the baby," she said. "It looked like he couldn’t really breathe that much. He was cold, and his feet were turning kind of blue." Yashima said she didn’t think twice before leaping into action. "I was scared he wouldn’t make it," she said. "I didn’t think. I just picked him up and ran downstairs to my mom. We wrapped him up and called 911." Yashima’s mother, Tonya Williams, 36, said she grabbed the first thing she could find, which was a pink towel, to wrap the boy. "I wasn’t sure if he was alive or not. He wasn’t crying or anything," Tonya Williams said. "But then I shook him a little and he moved so I knew." Police said the boy is about a week old. They took him to Long Island College Hospital where he was listed in stable condition. Elysia Carnevale, a spokeswoman for the Administration for Children’s Services, said the agency was investigating the identity of the baby’s mother, as well as where to place the baby when he is released from the hospital. Tonya Williams, who also has two other girls, ages 17 and 10, said she is interested in adopting the infant. "He was abandoned and I have kids. This would be a good place for him," she said. In fact, the family already has a name picked out. "We named the baby Bless," Tonya Williams said. "It was a miracle we found him alive." Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc. |