Newborn baby was left on couple’s doorstep

SHARON, Pa. — Linda Mims and her husband returned home from grocery shopping to discover that a newborn baby had been left near their doorstep.

“It never dawned on me that a baby could be left here,” Linda Mims said pointing to the second step of a darkened stairwell of the duplex at 109 S. Irvine St.

The Mims left home at 2 p.m. Wednesday. When they arrived back shortly after 5 p.m., the mother of their upstairs neighbor was on the porch holding something.

“We heard it whimpering and thought it was a cat,” Mims said.

It was a newborn baby girl wrapped in a gray windbreaker.

The baby was taken by police to an area hospital for observation and is now in the custody of Mercer County Children and Youth Services.

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