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'Baby Joey' takes his first steps to find mother
JESSICA LEEDER
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
July 19, 2008
It was 30 years ago yesterday that Therese Skomar was walking through
a back entrance at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon and sped past a
small, closed shoebox tucked inside the doorway.
On the way to visit her father in the hospital, Ms. Skomar had ducked
in through an entrance mostly used by doctors.
Something about that box made her stop and double back. She bent to
lift the lid, and what Ms. Skomar saw inside made her scream. Homeless
and nameless, the box's occupant was a wriggling, pink-cheeked male
infant. The emergency room doctor on duty, Joe Chin, guessed the boy
was five days old. The baby was one of the first recorded cases of
child abandonment in Saskatoon; nurses dubbed him “Baby Joey” or
“little Joe” after the doctor, and posed for pictures happily
swaddling him.