$ When This Couple Heard A Child Was Dumped, The Wife Said, “I Bet That’s Our Baby”
thumbnail : When this couple heard a child was dumped at a Church, the wife said, I bet that’s our baby. Darlene and Ron Liknis were in a car on a summer’s day in 1968. Suddenly, a story on the radio caught the her attention. On the steps of a Minneapolis Church, an abandoned baby had been found by the Church janitor. Then, with tears in her eyes, Darlene nudged her husband and said, I bet you that’s our baby. It was July 7, 1968, and Darlene and Ron were traveling with their four biological children when they heard the news story, and it seemed to affect Darlene profoundly. Though she knew nothing about the baby, she felt that she had to adopt him into the family also. The baby, nicknamed Baby John Doe, was left abandoned on the hard steps of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was in the early hours of a Sunday that the baby was found. The infant was wrapped in just a few sheets of newspaper. The baby was only hours old when he was found by a Church janito...