The Case Of The Kidnapped Incubator Baby
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot of crazy in episode 167, and it’s a little confusing at first because there’s so much of it going around, but even once the source of the crazy is obvious, the story is just picking up. I never thought I’d be doing a crime story about a child custody case, but I never heard of a child custody case like this one. Hold one, everybody. This one is a wild ride.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:04.0 | The statement that the home is an American institution is fast becoming obsolete, |
| 0:14.0 | that a natural interest in children is dying out, is substantially, though tacitly refuted by the throngs who daily crowd around the incubator |
| 0:23.3 | babies on the pike at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. From the dart-proof bachelor to the |
| 0:30.5 | thoughtless schoolgirl, everybody is quickened by the keenest interest as soon as it is known |
| 0:35.6 | that there are real live babies to be seen. |
| 0:38.3 | When to the simple fact that these infants are alive is added, the further information that they are so frail that a breath of chill air might extinguish their flickering life flame, |
| 0:48.3 | and that by the process employed in caring for them, more than four-fifths of them grow to be healthy, sturdy youngsters. |
| 0:55.0 | The interest is magnified a hundredfold. |
| 0:59.0 | The question most frequently asked is, where do the incubator babies come from and where are they going? |
| 1:06.0 | They come from all the maternity hospitals and from many private homes in the city, |
| 1:10.0 | and the most beautiful thing about the baby exhibit homes in the city. And the most beautiful |
| 1:11.4 | thing about the baby exhibit is that the little pauper who has no parents and no home receives |
| 1:16.9 | exactly as much care and attention as is lavished upon the child of opulence that has been sent |
| 1:22.4 | here because it is sure to receive the most scientific treatment. Moreover, these babies are cared for, whether rich or poor, are free of charge, |
| 1:32.5 | the one purpose of the physicians and attendance being to encourage the founding of incubator wards |
| 1:37.9 | in the city hospitals so that fragile infants may be given a fighting chance in life. |
| 1:43.9 | The manner in which the babies are obtained for the World's Fair incubators is interesting. |
| 1:48.0 | The doctors in charge are in communication with the physicians and hospitals in this city and others. |
| 1:55.0 | If a child is born prematurely, physicians, nurses, and attendants hurry to the house and prepare the little one |
| 2:01.5 | for a trip to the world's fair in a portable incubator. |
| 2:06.7 | Arriving at the incubator building, the baby, after a bath and warm olive oil, is placed |
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