Liz Smith with her daughter Gisele, who was 9 months old when Smith brought her home from the hospital. The infant, a ward of the state, had been at the hospital for five months, but Smith had never seen her before. Smith learned that Gisele, then 8 months old, had been born premature at another hospital in July 2016, weighing just under 2 pounds. The baby did not have a single visitor in her five months at the hospital. By Halloween of 2017, when Gisele was 15 months old, she was walking, and she knew several words.

Source: Washington Post April 03, 2019 12:00 UTC