- April 22, 2024
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SOUTHWEST ORANGE Orange County Sheriff's Office detectives are searching for the person or people responsible for abandoning a baby boy Friday morning at a Southwest Orange apartment complex.
Rodrigo Llamosas-Guerola had just returned home from his night-shift job at 8:40 a.m. Friday, July 29, when he noticed something unusual: a crying baby on his back porch.
The man, who lives at the Buena Vista Point Apartments, 11724 Reedy Creek Drive, Orlando, ran inside to wake his roommate, Derci R. Rojas, who had been asleep since 2 a.m. She was not aware that a baby had been placed on the porch.
According to Sheriff's Office reports, the infant boy, believed to be of Hispanic descent, was wrapped in a brown-fitted sheet and placed on a brown-wicker chair on an open-air porch at the rear of the apartment unit. He was wearing a diaper and a child-sized black T-shirt with a red Nike logo. Rojas took the baby inside before paramedics arrived.
Orange County Fire Rescue officials were the first to respond. A paramedic secured the child, who was born just hours before. The umbilical cord still was attached, but the baby did not appear to be in any distress.
The baby was sent to Winnie Palmer Hospital. He is now healthy and in the care of a foster family, according to Jane Watrel, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.
Sheriff’s Office detectives completed a canvas of the apartment area and did not find the parents. They are asking the child’s parents to come forward and identify themselves. Neither Llamosas-Guerola or Rojas had seen the baby before. The apartment complex manager, Georina Morales, said she was not aware of any pregnant female tenants in the complex in the past nine months.
“This is so unusual, but it’s so good that the child was found alive and healthy,” Watrel said.
Anyone with information should call Crimeline at 800-423-8477 or the Sheriff’s Office, (407) 836-4357.
This story has been updated to reflect the latest information released.
Contact Jennifer Nesslar at [email protected].
