The Hands and Feet Project - a children's village project in Haiti formed by Christian rock group Audio Adrenaline - is happy to announce that they are now nurturing a 19-day-old baby girl who survived a 28-foot drop down an outhouse toilet.
Her heroic rescue has brought together the villagers and workers in the area who can describe the situation only as a miracle.
"I knew this child would be fine," explained Darry "DJ" Williams, an American UN soldier who aided in the rescue, in a statement. "After being dropped 30-feet into a pit and left for dead, and there were no bruises, no signs of trauma, and she was resting? I knew I had witnessed a miracle. Everyone involved knew it."
A teenage boy named Toussaint was the first to respond after he noticed a big difference with the baby's mother.
Toussaint knew that the mother had tried to deny being pregnant during her term, and when he saw her one day return from the bathroom with blood on her legs and a smaller stomach, he followed the trail of blood back to the outhouse.
After hearing the cry from within the outhouse toilet, he immediately contacted police and attempted to pull the baby out through a lasso he had made and when that failed, started chipping at the newly made toilet.
"Toussaint told me that the mother had dropped the newborn in the pit because she didn't want it," said Williams in a statement. "I could see that the baby was moving and knew that time was of the essence."
Williams quickly notified the Sri Lankan army (that was acting on behalf of the United Nations), which then responded by quickly dismantling a toilet two stalls down. They then lowered a soldier who brought up the baby wrapped in a towel.
