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Baby Home Safe After 10-Hour Abduction Plumber finds baby crying in abandoned vehicle in Skokie

Updated 10:54 AM CDT, Thu, Feb 12, 2009

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Eric Hernandez holds his 7-month-old son, Osial, after a plumber found the baby safe in an abandoned car Friday.

 

It took 10 hours to find 7-month-old Osial Hernandez but by Friday evening the boy was leaving a suburban hospital in his father Eric Hernandez's arms. Osial's mother, Nuri Salgado, was crying.

A plumber working in the 5100 block of Madison in Skokie heard the boy crying in the van police had been searching for since it was stolen from Osial's mother early Friday.

Skokie police got the baby out within minutes by breaking out the windows of the locked vehicle. 

The 7-month-old boy had been the subject of an Amber Alert  most of Friday. Police said the Salgado, a newspaper distributor, had left the boy in the van with the engine running while she was bundling newspapers for delivery inside a building at 4242 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Police said she came out of a building to check on her son and went back inside. When she returned, the van was gone. 

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  • Anonymous Sunday, Nov 30 at 6:58 PM FLAG COMMENT The man in the picture is not able to nurse his son when he's hungry and that is why the baby went with his mother to work. Don't talk if you don't know what you're talking about.
  • betty232 Sunday, Nov 30 at 12:04 AM FLAG COMMENT Hey me...Perhaps English, the language we speak in the USA, is your second language and you need to go back to school and learn how to spell. How do English speaking expect to communicate with these people when they want to be here but don't care to learn the language?
  • me Saturday, Nov 29 at 10:06 PM FLAG COMMENT Dont be ignorent! What does language have to do with the issue. The comment was irrelavent, go back to school!
  • Anonymous Saturday, Nov 29 at 9:47 PM FLAG COMMENT I REALLY THINK WE ALL SHOULD START LEAVING OUR KIDS IN THE CAR TO SLEEP AT NIGHT INSTEAD OF LEAVING THEM WITH A RESPONSIBLE ADULT IF WE HAVE TO WORK AT NIGHT!!! HOW ABOUT THE MAN IN THE PICTURE--WHERE WAS HE?
  • Anonymous Saturday, Nov 29 at 9:54 AM FLAG COMMENT did anyone notice the sentence "Police said the officers were unaware the child was missing and did not know the van had been stolen at the time of the traffic stop?" John 8:7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Why is everyone so ready to cast stones at the mother, yet make no mention of the car jacker/abd ... MORE >

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