Herman Johnson and Laura Lacy were at home when they saw the news: a four-month-old baby had been found inside a dumpster in Los Angeles and had died at the hospital. Then they thought of Luna, the baby they had taken in as their granddaughter.
They searched desperately.
The girl’s mother, 19-year-old Takiyah Babers, first said that Luna was sleeping. Then she claimed that she was with her father. According to the family, neither version was true.
But something turned their worst fear into a nightmare: the news said the baby who had been found had six toes on one foot. Luna did too.
The police eventually arrested Babers on suspicion of murder.
The young woman had been raised by Johnson and Lacy since she was a child. Now, the same family that had taken in the mother was trying to understand how the baby they had cared for and loved so much had ended up abandoned in a dumpster, when there were so many ways for the story not to end this way…
