A baby was dumped on a doorstep with a heartbreaking note saying 'I had him in the bathroom. His dad tried to kill us.'
A resident found the one-day-old boy crying outside an apartment at the Willow Key complex in Orlando, Florida, US, on Saturday.
Police took the tot to hospital and asked neighbours whether they had seen the mother, who appears to have broken the law by dumping her child.
A handwritten note left next to the abandoned boy said: "I had him in the bathroom alone. His dad tried to kill us.
"Please keep him secret and take him to hospital. Dad a very dangerous man. I’m so sorry. I tried to clean him and feed him."
Althea Brown said the baby was left on her doorstep, however she was at work when the boy was discovered by her neighbour.
She told News 6 : "It's incomprehensible to me. I don't know if it's a neighbour or not or if it was just somebody that decided to use this place as their escape.
"When I heard it, I wish I was there. Maybe I’d take that baby in. Not to adopt it, but to foster it or something."
Neighbour Clive Petgrave added that another resident in the complex heard the baby crying while making breakfast and decided to investigate.
He said she opened her door and saw the baby on her neighbour's doorstep, Metro reports.
Police rushed the tot to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, where doctors confirmed he was in good health.
It is illegal to abandon a child in Florida, unless it is done at a designated place such as a hospital or fire station.
The mother could now face child neglect charges if she is tracked down.
