That's My Neighborhood

That is what popped into my head when I heard the news like the rest of Jacksonville that a 3 week old baby boy was abducted from his parents on Tuesday evening. The family lives about a mile from my house. After that thought came into my head the next thing that I thought about was how did a family with 2 children let a stranger that claimed to be an employee take their 2nd born child. My reaction to hearing about the abduction was fear because this happened so close to my house. I began to pray for the sweet little boy and for his family and that the Lord would bring him home safely and quickly.

I began to think how deseperate a person would have to be to go up to someone's house and take a baby out of his own parents' arms. We found out on Wednesday morning that the baby was found safe and sound at the girl's house with the girl who abducted him. The police informed the city later in the day that it was a 19 year old girl that stalked the family at the hospital earlier that afternoon and then followed them as they ran a few errands and then went to their home and convinced the family that they MUST give her their baby.

The sweet family of this little boy is from Haiti and they don't speak much English. They have been in the country for 5 years. In Haiti the people are afraid of the police and the girl threatened to have the police come and take this baby from them. This family also does not know how DCF works so they fully believed everything that the girl was saying. I hope and pray that the family will get some help in learning how some of the many agencies in the state and the nation work.

Continue to pray for this family as they will have to relive the incident for the trial that is coming.