ADAMS COUNTY, Colo (KDVR) — The family of the one-month-old baby found abandoned in a median of a busy Adams County street on Christmas morning spoke exclusively to FOX31.
According to a social media report, deputies responded to a 911 call around 9:20 a.m. Wednesday from someone who saw the baby boy in a car seat, only in his diaper, in a median near 7490 Pecos St. and stopped to help. The area is a busy roadway that’s near an intersection with U.S. 36.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office said it had arrested the child’s biological parents and was seeking to charge them with felony child abuse in the case. The parents were identified as Jarvis Sims, 42, and Christina Thurman, 33.
The family of Thurman said the baby boy, named Xion, reportedly had cocaine in his system and was in the care of his father after the couple was fighting Christmas morning.
"We were so ready for this baby to have his first Christmas, the greatest Christmas… That's what the first Christmas is, the greatest time. We didn't even get that, it got stolen from us," said Destiny Aguirre, Thurman's cousin and the baby's godmother. "Hurtful, like what if he would have died? You're going to go leave him in the middle of the street and then what? So he could die a slow death in the cold? That is not right."
With Colorado Safe Haven law, parents can drop babies off at fire stations face to face, within three days of a child's birth without consequences. Safe Haven Baby Boxes is encouraging states to push that law to 30 days and allow baby boxes instead of face-to-face surrender.
"We want to work to help this parent with whatever crisis she's in. These women don't want our help. They want to be in and they want to be out. And some of these women fear going in there because they know they're going to try and be talked out of a decision that took them so long to make," said Monica Kelsey of Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
Unfortunately, Xion is over a month old, so the Colorado Safe Haven law would not have applied. But, the family says the child is now in CPS care and is expected to be okay.
"We're trying everything to get the baby back. He belongs with family. Her other three kids are here with us, why can't the baby be? Any one of us is willing to take that baby and make sure he is with, who he belongs, with his family," said April Aragon, Thurman's mother. "It's my grandbaby's first Christmas with a stranger. First Christmas, like his sisters, my grandkids are everything to me. For him just to be left out, it's not fair."
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