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A man has adopted a baby he found - in a trash can.
Jimmy Amisial, now 27, was visiting his hometown in Haiti when he came across the screaming four-month-old baby boy.
The student, who lives in San Marcos, Texas, said the child was covered in ants and the crowd of people around him were reluctant to get involved.
Brave Jimmy scooped up the baby and took him home to his mother Elicie Jean, 66, where they washed, clothed and fed him milk, before taking him for medical help.
A man has adopted a baby he found - in a trash can.
Jimmy Amisial, now 27, was visiting his hometown in Haiti when he came across the screaming four-month-old baby boy.
The student, who lives in San Marcos, Texas, said the child was covered in ants and the crowd of people around him were reluctant to get involved.
Brave Jimmy scooped up the baby and took him home to his mother Elicie Jean, 66, where they washed, clothed and fed him milk, before taking him for medical help.
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00:00 When I first saw Emilio in the band, I felt like I had to do something.
00:05 My heart jumped to my throat and I felt the need to rescue him and protect him.
00:23 When I found him, what I did was I picked him and I ran to my mom's house to clean him,
00:32 clothe him and make sure that he was okay. And my mom was even shocked when she saw me
00:37 with the baby and the next morning we took him to the doctor. From the time that I found him,
00:44 we've never known anybody that claimed him. Even the police came to investigate to see
00:51 anybody that would come and claim him and nobody did. When the judge asked me to be his legal
00:58 guardian, that wasn't my expectations at all. I was shocked when he told me that.
01:03 To be his legal guardian was going to be a lot of responsibility.
01:08 It took me days tossing and thinking about what am I going to do. I couldn't even make
01:18 end meets for my schooling and I was already behind. And after that, I started thinking
01:27 maybe there is a reason that I found him. And I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna take a
01:32 leap of faith. I'll do anything for this precious living soul, no matter what happens. So I just said yes.
01:49 My mom is my hero and I would say she plays a really important part in this journey.
01:55 I didn't know what I was gonna do and I was gonna have to go back to school
02:00 and she had to take this task while I'm gone. She's raising my kid right now like she was
02:08 raising me. It's incredible and it's so amazing to see.
02:12 I'm gonna try to get him a visa and try to bring him here. With having him, I want him to know that
02:26 there is someone here for him. So he would call me dad and I'll call him son. The best thing
02:34 having Emilio in my life is he taught me a lot of things to be strong, to be wise, and to be
02:40 able to expect the unexpected in life. I really think the future holds a lot of great things
02:48 for me and Emilio. He's grown up now and I can see him doing a lot of things. This journey itself will
02:57 inspire a lot of people. If I would say one thing to the people that have abandoned him, I would say
03:07 what they did wasn't nice and now Emilio is in the good hand and he was thrown to trash by them.
03:15 Now he's a treasure.
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