The young man who found the aban­doned ba­by hid­den among bush­es in Freeport last Thurs­day wants to vis­it the in­fant, to see for him­self how she is do­ing.

Steven Red­head, 21, who has been shy­ing away from the spot­light said he has been try­ing to “go see her”, but I’m wait­ing for them to get back to me lat­er.”

On No­vem­ber 19, Red­head was la­belled a lo­cal hero as he fol­lowed what he first thought were the “cries of kit­tens” com­ing from the bush­es that he and his broth­er were walk­ing past to head to work that morn­ing. 

Those cries turned out to be short cries of a ba­by girl who was hid­den in some bush­es mere me­ters from the ma­jor road that runs par­al­lel to the en­trance of Beau­ca­roo Vil­lage, Old South­ern Main Road in Cen­tral.

The ba­by girl, who was dressed in a fuch­sia pink one­sie and a pair of match­ing socks, be­lieved to be a few weeks old, was found ly­ing on her back on the grass in the swel­ter­ing heat. Her blan­ket was bun­dled up next to her. 

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia last week, Red­head said he did not see him­self as a hero as he was sure if some­one else was to pass­ing by and heard the cries they would have done the right thing, just like he did. 

Mean­while, in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers are still search­ing for the ba­by’s par­ents and oth­er rel­a­tives as no one has come for­ward with any in­for­ma­tion on who the ba­by be­longs to.

Since the res­cue of the ba­by girl, there have been nu­mer­ous peo­ple have been seek­ing in­for­ma­tion about her wel­fare and have even of­fered to adopt her.

How­ev­er, last Fri­day, the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go gave the as­sur­ance that the ba­by is “in a safe place and is get­ting the re­quired med­ical at­ten­tion.”

In a re­lease, the Au­thor­i­ty said it will be man­ag­ing the case and will pro­vide the nec­es­sary in­ter­ven­tions, in the best in­ter­est of the child.

When con­tact­ed on Thurs­day af­ter­noon as to the re­quest to vis­it by the res­cuer, Red­head, Cheryl Moses-Williams, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ag­er| Pub­lic Ed­u­ca­tion & Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go said she was in “no po­si­tion to ad­vise on that mat­ter.”

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are again plead­ing with mem­bers of the pub­lic who have any in­for­ma­tion as to where the par­ents of the child can be found to call them at 555, 999, 800 TIPS or 482 GARY.