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Santa Ana Police Department complex in California, photographed in 2008.
Photo: Bondswoman / 888 Bail Bond / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.

Abandoned Baby Saved by a Police Officer: 25 Years Later: An Emotional Reunion

Santa Ana Police Department complex in California, photographed in 2008.
Santa Ana Police Department complex, California (2008). Photo: Bondswoman / 888 Bail Bond / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.

25 years ago, a newborn abandoned baby was found by a police officer in a trash dumpster. The baby had been abandoned by his mother and left to die in the trash dumpster. In 2014, the police officer and the now grown up baby had an emotional reunion.

On November 21, 1989, Michael Bulena, a police officer in Santa Ana, California was investigating an unrelated crime in the area, when he heard the soft cries of a baby coming from a place where no baby should have been.

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