{"id":256241,"date":"2021-11-01T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=256241"},"modified":"2021-10-31T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:28:28","slug":"woman-abandoned-finds-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-abandoned-finds-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman abandoned in a pillowcase in 1967 finally finds her family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent story in the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> tells the amazing way a family has found and embraced one of their own \u2014\u00a0a woman who was abandoned as an infant.<\/p>\n

When Cheryl Edwards was born in 1967, she was left in a pillowcase and abandoned in a dresser drawer in a Philadelphia row house. At the time, a teenager living in the house heard the infant’s cries, and alerted his mother and another resident of the home, George Ikard. Ikard took the pillowcase \u2014 and the child in it \u2014 and dumped it in the trash behind the house, later telling a reporter that he was too nervous to look inside. Thankfully, a neighbor saw the incident and went to investigate, finding and rescuing the newborn Edwards.<\/p>\n

READ: MIRACLE: Chicago woman rescues newborn abandoned in alley trash<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Edwards was placed in foster care and was later adopted, but as the years passed, she was bothered that she knew little about the circumstances surrounding her birth. Hoping for closure and some answers, she reached out to The Inquirer to share her story. \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t think that anyone would respond,\u201d she said. \u201cI was holding out hope that someone knew something, I just didn\u2019t know who.\u201d<\/p>\n