She told doctors that her mother had been “sleeping” for three days without moving and that the babies had stopped crying the previous day. Remembering her mother’s instruction to seek help at the hospital, she placed the twins in the wheelbarrow and pushed them there herself.
Hospital staff immediately treated the twins while contacting police and social services. The girl desperately wanted to return home for her mother, but she was too young and exhausted to retrace the journey alone.
After struggling to remember the route, she provided a road name, partial address, and one important landmark—a bent blue mailbox near a ditch. Authorities then had enough information to begin searching for the home and the mother she had been forced to leave behind.
