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BABY LUCY

Baby Lucy arrived at The Nest Children's Home when she was 5-months old. Her mother had been arrested a week before. The mother was found repeatedly drunk and unconscious in the ditch with the crying infant at her side. As the child was sick and had been returned twice to the hospital with complications, the doctors had reported the case to the police who in turn finally arrested the mother.

Baby Lucy's story is heart-breaking and one that is hard to comprehend. Lucy was raped by her own father when she was 3-months old. Part of her intestines and reproductive organs were torn and had been removed. The openings were stitched closed and a colostomy had been performed. Since the rape, Lucy's father has disappeared. Her mother is 22 years old and had 4 children - one has died of negligence.

Baby Lucy’s grandmother and relatives live in the slums. The Nest visited them, as they wanted to know what had happened in order to decide how to best help mother and child. On the first visit to the family they rescued the siblings of Lucy, two boys aged three and six years. They found them with their grandmother who at 9 o’clock in the morning was already so drunk that she was unable to respond to them. The boys had not eaten anything in two days. They were very filthy, full of scabies and had infections from jiggers on their feet. They were also very underweight and their eyes were yellowish. The room was unbelievably dirty, with all kind of things and rugs scattered on the floor, and human faeces covered with sand. They asked the neighbours for water, cleaned the boys and bought them milk and bread. They ate like hungry wolves.

Lucy's uncle took them to the house of Lucy’s parents. The house was locked. The aunt to the children who happens to be a neighbour narrated how she took food to Lucy and her brothers on Christmas day. When she had come to the house she found the father naked and the baby crying. The two little boys were traumatized and confused: they had watched how “Daddy has broken Baby’s body”. When asked why she did not scream for help to arrest the man the aunt claimed that she didn’t know what was happening and that the baby was not bleeding. They took the baby to the dispensary not until next morning because she looked “funny”. The nurse at the dispensary referred the child to the hospital and informed the police.

 Lucy is a very quiet and calm baby, too quiet, but still smiles when caressed and cuddled. She is now 8-months old. Baby Lucy needs to undergo two surgeries. A surgeon has agreed to perform the reconstructive surgeries free of charge, Praise God! However, Lucy will be in hospital for over a month, and the hospital bills, medication and after-care are very expensive. We have set the dates for her operations - the first one on the 13th of August. We are trusting God to provide the funds that we need to pay for all the bills and for Baby Lucy to get the best possible care. Please pray for this precious little baby! We know she is in God's hands