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unreal, crazy story
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| AnotherWay83 |
this is unbelievable, but its true...it was even on sum talk radio shows
REFUSING HELP, WOMAN GIVES BIRTH ABOARD T
Author(s): C. Kalimah Redd, Globe Correspondent, and Mac Daniel,
Globe
Staff Date: July 31, 2003 Page: A1 Section: Metro/Region
A 42-year-old Braintree woman gave birth to a baby boy while standing on an
inbound Red Line train yesterday morning, refusing help from stunned
passengers who heard her moan and seconds later looked down to find her baby
on the floor.
Witnesses told police that Joyce M. Judge, a former nurse who later said she
was on the way to a Boston hospital, kept quietly refusing help during and
after the delivery. " `Thanks for your concern, we're OK,' " she said,
according to Chris Chin of Duxbury. Standing 4 feet away from Judge, Chin
said, he saw her tie the umbilical cord in a knot and wrap the baby in a
silk scarf. "She cradled the baby in one arm and grabbed the handrail with
the other and continued to ride the T and stare out the window."
Bill Mahoney, also of Duxbury, watched the scene unfold: "It was simply
surreal."
Transit officials said they received a call from the train operator for
medical assistance and had an MBTA official waiting at the JFK-UMass station
on the platform when the train arrived. But Judge refused help and sprinted
up a flight of stairs toward the turnstiles, MBTA Lieutenant Gary Fredericks
said. She then grabbed some newspaper to wrap up the baby, ran across the
platform toward Morrissey Boulevard, and hustled up another flight of stairs
to the Columbia Road overpass.
MBTA police intercepted her and took the baby boy, who was breathing and
kicking but not crying. As two officers examined the baby in the front seat
of a police SUV, Fredericks said, Judge pounded on their backs and screamed:
"Let me see!"
Mother and child were doing fine yesterday at Boston Medical Center,
authorities said. Officials from the state Department of Social Services are
investigating.
Clutching the faded pink and beige silk scarf, Judge sat in her hospital bed
and told a reporter how she woke up at about 5:15 a.m. yesterday and began
vomiting. She decided to go to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton and left
her two other children, ages 15 and 11, at the Motel 6 in Braintree, where
the family has been living for the past year.
But once she was on the train in North Quincy, she felt the baby coming. "It
wasn't too painful, it happened so fast," Judge said. "The contractions were
from 1 to 2 minutes apart. I said, `Let me get off this train.' "
People, she said, started screaming. When asked why she refused help from
other passengers, Judge said: "They couldn't do anything on the train so I
thought it was better to get to the hospital."
Passengers, many of whom responded to a Boston.com announcement seeking
witnesses and were then contacted by phone, said they were startled by the
chain of events.
After the train left North Quincy, while crossing the Neponset River around
7:20 a.m., passengers reported hearing a muffled groan. Judge, dressed in a
pink velour top and matching skirt, stood in the middle of the fourth car.
Suddenly, her water broke.
"At first I thought someone spilled coffee, but it kept dripping," said
Chin, 32. "But she stood staring out the window . . . I started doubting
what I saw."
About 90 seconds later, Chin said, "I saw a head, then full baby fall out
from her skirt, hit the floor sideways and slide the length of the doorway,
stopping when he bumped up against the next row of seats. Still she stared
out the window. Either she didn't know it happened or didn't want to
acknowledge it."
Judge bent down, picked up the baby and wrapped it in her scarf, Chin said.
As passengers slowly realized what had happened, witnesses said, the train
rallied around the new mother. People offered sweaters and implored her to
sit or lie down. Still, Judge refused.
"I'm fine," she repeated throughout the trip. "I'm fine."
With the JFK-UMass stop still three minutes away, passengers, some of whom
vomited in the wake of the bloody birth, inundated State Police with cell
phone calls. Dispatchers told passengers to ask Judge if she had passed the
placenta. Passengers yelled back that she had not. Dispatchers asked if the
baby was breathing. Others yelled back that they weren't sure.
At one point, Judge took some nearby newspapers and placed them on the floor
to soak up the blood. Some witnesses heard Judge apologize for the mess.
After leaving the train and heading for the stairs up to the station's main
lobby, witnesses said, the placenta fell to the platform. Judge turned
around, grabbed the afterbirth, put it in her shoulder bag, and headed
upstairs.
"She just literally picked it up with her hand and put it in some kind of
bag she was carrying, and this was in mid-stride . . . It was the craziest
thing I've ever seen," said Robert Busby, of Weymouth.
Lisa Judge of Rhode Island, who visited her sister yesterday, said Joyce
Judge didn't realize how dilated she was. "She said she thought she could
make it" to the hospital, Lisa Judge said.
Lisa Judge said she has taken in her sister's children at times when she has
had "spells, she would turn inward and wouldn't talk to anybody."
Marie Judge of Roxbury, said her daughter seemed stressed recently and
admitted she was pregnant only when Marie Judge confronted her a month ago.
DSS, which has no record of any prior contact with the family, placed
Judge's two other children in temporary custody yesterday. Denise Monteiro,
a DSS spokeswoman, said the baby will not be released to Judge, who said she
works for Boston Public Schools in food and nutritional services, unless the
agency is convinced she can care for the child. The hospital is conducting a
psychiatric evaluation of Judge, Monteiro said.
"We're trying to find out what prompted this behavior," she said. "It makes
us concerned about her and it makes us concerned about her baby."
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| DJPrototypeX |
| wow...thas crazy...i'm speechless... |
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| eye_03 |
| I am at my friends house :) |
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| SpArKLeS4 |
| :eek: Whoa... that was crazy... it sounds SOOO painful... |
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| loudcloud |
That's sick - especially the part about putting the afterbirth in her handbag
I am glad I live in a sane civilized city where things like that don't happen.... NYC |
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| fuct4less |
| :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: <-- (a smilie i rarely use) |
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| DeE420 |
| amazing how she had it just STANDING there....then just sat and looked out the wondow!!:eek: |
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| Dmatrox |
| quote: | "At first I thought someone spilled coffee, but it kept dripping," said
Chin, 32. "But she stood staring out the window . . . I started doubting
what I saw."
About 90 seconds later, Chin said, "I saw a head, then full baby fall out
from her skirt, hit the floor sideways and slide the length of the doorway,
stopping when he bumped up against the next row of seats. Still she stared
out the window. Either she didn't know it happened or didn't want to
acknowledge it."
Judge bent down, picked up the baby and wrapped it in her scarf, Chin said.
As passengers slowly realized what had happened, witnesses said, the train
rallied around the new mother. People offered sweaters and implored her to
sit or lie down. Still, Judge refused.
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WTF?? :wtf: what a wierd mother. |
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| bananapeel |
Yikes, scary thing.
I'm thinking Social Services is going to have to step in. I don't think the mother is in a state of mind to raise a baby. |
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| placebo |
| Did she eat the baby? Did she? Did she? Huh Huh Huh? |
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| CynepMeH |
Yummy storry... made me think of New England clam chowder... :wtf:
Gotta tell you, that whole Massachusets area is full of inbred mofos... :rolleyes: |
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| vmc |
:wtf:
I wouldn't want to withess that... |
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