A baby that was thrown into a trash dumpster by her 13-year-old mother is in good condition after being rescued by movement and rustling in a dumpster.
A man who was looking for recyclables in a dumpster at the Sunnyside apartment complex in Merced, California around 6 a.m. heard some rustling in the trash. At first he thought it was some kind of scavenger animal but when he saw it was a baby he began screaming.
The infant was covered in trash, gnats and flies. Jimmy Alvarez scooped up the child, cleaned her and wrapped her in his T-shirt until he could contact authorities.
“I think she was going to die if we had not found her,” Annett Alvarez told KRCA.
The Los Angeles Time says police tracked down the girl through tips from the public. The mother of the teen said she did not even know her daughter was pregnant. The teen has not yet been charged with any crime but is in the care of Child Protective Services.
A copy of the Message translation of the Bible was more than a spiritual lifesaver for a Dayton, Ohio bus driver.
49-year-old Rickey Waggoner, a driver for the Dayton Regional Transit Authority, had been working on his bus when he was approached by three youths. The youths shot Waggoner in the chest at point blank range.
However, a copy of the Message Bible that Waggoner had in his pocket stopped both of the bullets. Police say the Bible saved Waggoner’s life.
While not specifically attributing the act to divine will, a Dayton police officer said there had to be something special that happened for the bus driver.
“There was obviously some kind of intervention involved in this incident because he should probably not be here,” Dayton Police Sergeant Michael Pauley told the Dayton Daily News.
Police believe the attack was a gang initiation because Waggoner reported one of the youths said “if you want to be all the way in the club” to the one who pulled the trigger.
The man who created the Message translation, Eugene Peterson, said that he had heard of similar incidents in World War II where Bibles stopped bullets.
“It’s good to be in the club,” Peterson told Fox News.