The Heartwarming Story Of How A US Cop Adopted Homeless Woman’s Baby
A California police officer is now a father of four after adopting a baby from a homeless woman.
Jesse, 33, works with the Santa Rosa Police Department in California. One day, he met a drug-addicted homeless woman who had nowhere else to go, and who was pregnant. Later, Jesse took his wife, Ashley, with him to meet the woman. They both offered to take the woman to a rehabilitation centre.
On February 9, the woman gave birth to a baby girl.
The couple received a call that would change their lives. It was the birth mother, who had specifically asked Officer Whitten and his wife to adopt their daughter.
“I fell in love right away,” Whitten said about his daughter, Harlow, who is 7 months old. “She’s so adorable. She will cry if she needs something, obviously as babies do, but as soon as we would touch her, she’d immediately stop crying. She knew right away that she was safe.”
On August 30, the Whittens officially adopted the child.
They named her Harlow Maisey Whitten. Her middle name was given by her birth mother. The Whittens kept it to honour the woman, they said.
“This is to say, ‘She loved you and we loved you and we both named you,'” Whitten noted.
The Santa Rosa Police Department congratulated the family on their new addition in a Facebook post, “Ofc. Whitten, the proud father of three girls, has already opened his heart and home to this baby. And now it’s official!”
