After being reported missing an eight-month-old baby has been found.
The baby boy named Niguel Jackson was abandoned in a field last week, in low temperatures close to 50 degrees, but was found “healthy” and “alive” after police searched for hours with the help of police helicopters and first responders, according to The Advocate.
A spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department confirmed that the baby boy did not have any obvious injuries or signs of trauma, but was taken to the local hospital to be evaluated, according to WAFB9.
EMS spokesperson Mike Chuzta told The Advocate that the baby “didn’t even cry” during the rescue.
“The timing didn’t give us a lot of hope, but the baby was tough,” he explained.
Chuzta told WAFB9 that during the recovery “medics jumped on him and started treating him right away” and that he thinks that the baby is “gonna be fine.”
The mother arrived at a local fire station in the evening and was brought to the hospital. The next day when being transferred to a different facility, officials say she spoke up about the baby, according to The Advocate.
She later helped the police narrow the location down to her son’s location.
A Facebook post written by the Baton Rouge Police department expressed that they believed the mother “suffered apparent medical issues.”
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“No charges are pending at this point in time. This investigation remains ongoing,” they wrote.
After Jackson’s recovery, Sharon Weston Broome, Mayor-President of the City of Baton Rouge, took to Facebook thanking emergency responders and community members for their “quick coordination” in finding him.
“The Lord guided your efforts today,” she wrote.
Job 5:9 says that God “performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.”
“It’s still in a dangerous area but still think that it’s just a miracle basically to see the condition he was in. I did not expect that at all,” Chutza told WAFB9.