A mother abandoned her hour-old baby girl

A mother abandoned her hour-old baby girl outside a fire station with a note pleading for someone to find her a 'good home.'

A fire fighter at Port St Lucie Fire Station in Florida found the newborn in a bag after receiving an anonymous phone call that a child had been left on a bench outside the fire station.
Stephen Beane discovered the child in a white bag wrapped in towels with a note which read: 'Please find her a good home. I'm sorry, thank you. Birth Mom. Born April 21 2011, 7.15am.'
He said: 'Lady’s voice on there said that she was concerned about a bag that was (lying) in front of the building,'
'I asked her who she was and she said, ‘I just happened to be driving by and saw a bag (lying) there and I was concerned about it.,' the Palm Beach Post reported.

He told CNN: 'It was an "Oh my God" moment, leaving a baby unattended like that.
'There was a note in the bag and it said, "Please find her a good home, she was born at 7.15am on April 21st, I'm sorry.'
Mr Beane's colleagues helped cut the umbilical cord and he called police and paramedics who arrived at 8.15am.

The newborn was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center to be checked over and is said to be in good health.
She will now enter the adoption system.

Under the state’s Safe Haven Law, the mother or father of an unharmed newborn can leave the child at a hospital, fire rescue station or emergency medical services facility. The child can be within seven days of birth.
In place since 2000, the law was amended in 2008 to increase the time in which parents can turn over a newborn from three to seven days from birth.