Houston woman abandoned 40 years ago says bigger conversation needed after 2 babies found days apart

It’s not a story you hear often, life after being abandoned as a baby.

A Houston woman is speaking to ABC13 for the second time about her experience, given six babies have reportedly been abandoned in Harris County since June.

Leigha Curry opened up to Eyewitness News about the old wounds.

When asked what it feels like to be back at the place where she was abandoned, Curry responded with, “It is very difficult for me.”

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Curry is part of a club that no one wants to belong to. She was left to die as a baby. Her story hit ABC13 airwaves in 1982.

“Some grim news here in Houston. Two young infants, one just a few hours old, were abandoned and left to die here in Houston over the weekend. One baby did die. The other is doing just fine. They are also looking for the mother of a newborn Black baby girl who was discovered by students at the Williams Middle School in northwest Houston,” news reports stated back then.

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