{"id":2490289,"date":"2025-04-02T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2490289\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:33:19","slug":"brazil-binman-finds-newborn-baby-on-garbage-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2490289\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil binman finds newborn baby on garbage route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AFP047228_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      A garbage collector in Rio de Janeiro got the surprise of his life on Tuesday when he found a newborn baby, that he first took for a discarded doll, abandoned next to a dumpster.<br \/>  A video of Samuel da Silva dos Santos holding the baby girl found in a box on a street strewn with trash went viral on social media, sparking a mixture of joy and indignation in the Brazilian seaside city.<br \/>  The infant, whose bare legs are seen sticking out of a too-small pink blanket, makes no sound in the video but her mouth can be seen twitching.<br \/>  It&#8217;s very emotional because she is a warrior, isn&#8217;t she? She was born again, Silva told AFP later through tears.<br \/>  Although she did not react at first to being picked up, when Silva took her in his arms, I think she felt more cuddled and a bit warmer. It was then that she began to open her eyes (&#8230;) it&#8217;s surreal, Silva&#8217;s garbage truck partner Anderson Mendes Nunes added.<br \/>  The pair found the baby in a box next to a dumpster in the north of the city, as they were nearing the end of their route in the middle of the night.<br \/>  Rio police are trying to identify the child and to discover who abandoned her, local media reported.<br \/>  The pair handed the little girl over to Rio&#8217;s health services, which later declared her to be in stable condition.<br \/>  Silva said they were lucky they spotted the baby.<br \/>  We usually work quickly with shovels, tossing it (the garbage into the truck). It could have been worse, he said.<br \/>  A father of three, he says he wants to adopt the little girl.<br \/>  She needs someone who will give her love, who will give her care, he said emotionally.<br \/>  He said the incident brought back memories of a tragic find 18 years ago, when he discovered the body of a baby in the garbage.<br \/>  Social media users were torn between sympathy for the situation of the absent mother and anger.<br \/>  I can&#8217;t imagine the desperation that led to this decision, one person wrote on X.<br \/>  How can someone do that to their own daughter? another wondered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A garbage collector in Rio de Janeiro got the surprise of his life on Tuesday when he found a newborn baby, th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785160],"tags":[30353,98706,528524,32077,939,1670,98751,73191,11802,200,125020,1656,78392,6798,17757,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2490289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brazil","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-jiji","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-1670","14":"tag-98751","15":"tag-73191","16":"tag-11802","17":"tag-200","18":"tag-125020","19":"tag-1656","20":"tag-78392","21":"tag-6798","22":"tag-17757","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-482","44":"tag-14115","45":"tag-577","46":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114270281016201208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}