{"id":1607959,"date":"2022-08-16T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607959"},"modified":"2022-08-16T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:08:20","slug":"texas-state-student-pauses-education-after-finding-four-month-old-baby-in-trash-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-state-student-pauses-education-after-finding-four-month-old-baby-in-trash-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Student Pauses Education After Finding Four-Month-Old Baby In Trash In Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-state-student-pauses-education-after-finding-four-month-old-baby-in-trash-in-haiti%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A young man from Haiti put his college education in the U.S. in 2017 after he found a four-month-old baby in a pile of trash while visiting his family during winter break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jimmy Amisial, 27, had been studying communications at Texas State University in 2017 when he went home to celebrate the new year with his family in Haiti. While there, Amisial discovered Emilio Angel Jeremiah, now four years old, abandoned on the street.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt was so sad to see him crying, and he had no clothes on,\u201d Amisial told\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/texas-state-student-adopts-baby-found-abandoned-trash-haiti?taid=62fb000354ec3f00010a38e4&#038;utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_medium=trueanthem&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fox 26<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. \u201cHe was naked and had fire ants crawling all over him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amisial said bystanders refused to help the infant because of a\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Haitian superstition surrounding New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But that didn\u2019t stop Amisial from immediately picking up Emilio and saving his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hope to Haiti, a nonprofit organization founded in 2007, <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hopetohaiti.com\/orphanages\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">reports<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to its website, the small island of 11.4 million people has an estimated 1.2 million orphans and vulnerable children, with about 7,000 children roaming the streets of its capital, Port-au-Prince.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cEvery week, hundreds of babies and children are abandoned in Haiti shortly after birth,\u201d the website reads.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The nonprofit reports mothers are forced to abandon their children every day for survival, often leaving newborns in hospitals, shop doorways, alleys, or dumped in the street.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amisial, who often volunteers at orphanages, told Fox 26 that he spent the last four years struggling to support the child financially.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said that the adoption process in Haiti often comes with expensive hidden fees \u2014 but that didn\u2019t stop him from immediately trying to become Emilio\u2019s legal guardian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Haitian authorities and a judge came to his family\u2019s house and offered to let him adopt the baby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amisial, only 22 years old at the time, accepted despite the expensive and arduous process that has taken years to complete.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amisial said that he doesn\u2019t regret the decision and the journey the two have been on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWhenever he\u2019s talking to me saying like, \u2018Oh Daddy, I need this, I need that, I need a tablet. I want you to buy me a bike,\u201d\u2018 he said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cSo he has someone he can go to to ask stuff,\u201d Amisial added. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amisial started a fundraiser, where supporters donated more than $60,000 to help him complete the adoption process.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man from Haiti put his college education in the U.S. in 2017 after he found a four-month-old baby in a pile of trash while visiting his family during winter break.\u00a0 Jimmy Amisial, 27, had been studying communications at Texas State University in 2017 when he went home to celebrate the new year with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}