Saturday, June 03, 2006
Please pass this on...
Kasie Overcash, 19, is looking for her mother. Kasie was found abandoned on a Sunday afternoon, March 1, 1987, in a blue-gray towel in a bathroom sink at Charlotte's University Memorial Hospital (now Carolinas Medical Center-University).
Newspapers called baby X, burses called her Baby Rhonda. When the Department of Social Services took over, her birth certificate -- for reasons no one seems to recall -- read Anna Catherine Bailey.
According to 1987 news stories, Kasie may have been snatched from her sleeping mother and left in the hospital bathroom by someone else.
Police said a woman contacted them the day after the baby was abandoned.
"How can we get the baby back?" the woman demanded.
When police asked the whereabouts of the mother, the caller hung up.
A plea went out for information. Nobody called.
This scene is, of course, at the heart of Kasie's curiosity.
If you are Kasie's birth mother and you dial this number (980-721-8103): Please, don't hang up on this second chance -- at life, at Kasie. She wants to find you!
Dannye: (704) 358-5230; dpowell@charlotteobserver.com
Newspapers called baby X, burses called her Baby Rhonda. When the Department of Social Services took over, her birth certificate -- for reasons no one seems to recall -- read Anna Catherine Bailey.
According to 1987 news stories, Kasie may have been snatched from her sleeping mother and left in the hospital bathroom by someone else.
Police said a woman contacted them the day after the baby was abandoned.
"How can we get the baby back?" the woman demanded.
When police asked the whereabouts of the mother, the caller hung up.
A plea went out for information. Nobody called.
This scene is, of course, at the heart of Kasie's curiosity.
If you are Kasie's birth mother and you dial this number (980-721-8103): Please, don't hang up on this second chance -- at life, at Kasie. She wants to find you!
Dannye: (704) 358-5230; dpowell@charlotteobserver.com
# posted by Senior Mom @ 8:42 PM 
