Posted by TexasChic on September 6, 2005, at 18:06:29
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20050906/ts_chicagotrib/achildinchargeof6babies
Not sure if I did that link right.
Here's a synopsis:
"A 6-year-old boy was found walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers. He said the 5-month-old was his brother, Darynael, and that two others were his cousins, Tyreek and Zoria. The other three lived in his apartment building. [They] were found wandering together Thursday at an evacuation point in downtown New Orleans.""At the rescue headquarters, [the 6 year old] Deamonte volunteered his vital statistics. He said his father was tall and his mother was short. He gave his address, his phone number and the name of his elementary school. [He said he] saw his mother cry when he was loaded onto the helicopter. He promised her he would take care of his little brother. "
"Late Saturday, they found Deamonte's mother, who was in a shelter in San Antonio along with the four mothers of the other five children. Catrina Williams, 26, saw her children's pictures on a Web site set up over the weekend by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "
It goes on to say, "What happened [said the mother] was that her family, trapped in a New Orleans apartment building, began to feel desperate. The water wasn't going down, and they had been living without light, food or air conditioning for four days. The baby needed milk and the milk was gone. So she decided they would evacuate by helicopter. When a helicopter arrived, they were told to send the children first and that the helicopter would be back in 25 minutes.
"The helicopter didn't come back."
"While the children were transported to Baton Rouge, their parents wound up in Texas."
"On Sunday, Williams was elated. "All I know is I just want to see my kids," she said. "Everything else will just fall into place."
"The children were driven to an airport for the flight to San Antonio to rejoin their parents."
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