Why would anyone leave a child at a Walmart in Indiana?

Question

Just cannot understand. The child was left with a note saying that the mother could no longer take care of him. He had a back pack which contained toys, diapers and baby bottle. Incredible!

Answer 1

It was no doubt somebody who couldn't cope, and didn't want to go through a lot of legal procedures, for some reason.  We can only speculate what that reason might have been, but I can imagine several scenarios.

Clearly she at least wanted the child to be safe and cared for.

Who knows, she might turn up at some future point.

Answer 2

These are very burdensome times. Perhaps she was recently laid-off. Maybe she was facing foreclosure. I don't know the circumstances or reasons why this mother acted as she did. While difficult for you or I to imagine someone being so callous as to simply abandon a helpless child at a Wal-Mart, it speaks volumes about the distress a lot of people are experiencing right now. Leaving a backpack, toys, and bottle suggest this individual is not completely void of humanity and compassion. Small comfort to a kid who will grow up and one day learn his mother abandoned him at the neighborhood Wal-Mart, and just walked away.

Answer 3

some people are just terrible there are better ways

Answer 4

The woman was from Guatemala and didn't speak English. If she's illegal could be that she feared if she went to authorities to give her child up that she'd be deported. Or it could be that she's unfamiliar with the official process to put a kid up for adoption.

Answer 5

At least she left him in a safe place where he would be found and taken care of. She could have abandoned him anywhere. Very sad indeed.

Answer 6

I Know it is sad.