A 1-month-old baby boy wearing only a diaper was found alone on a Colorado street on Christmas Day and his parents are now under behind bars.
A passerby saw the baby alone in his car seat around 9:20 a.m. Wednesday and stopped to help, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on Facebook. Denver recorded a high of 50 degrees on Wednesday and a low of 34 degrees, according to AccuWeather.
Sgt. Adam Sherman with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office told USA TODAY on Thursday that it’s unclear how long the baby was there but said from what investigators could gather, “it was a relatively short time of just a few minutes.”
“But that’s a few minutes too long for any child to be left alone in that situation,” Sherman said.
After the baby was found, he was taken to a local children’s hospital as a precaution, while detectives canvassed the area, looked into camera footage, and tried to figure out who left the baby there.
Authorities also shared images of the car seat on social media and requested the public to help them identify the infant and his family “so he can be united with his loved ones and the person who abandoned him can be brought to justice.”
An approximately one-month-old baby boy was found in an abandoned car seat wearing only a diaper in Colorado on Christmas Day.
Baby’s parents arrested
The biological parents of the infant were later identified, arrested and charged with felony child abuse the same day, police said in a later update. They were identified as Jarvis…