A trip to visit his family in Haiti changed the life of a young man who was studying in Texas, as he found a baby lying in the garbage covered in ants, whom he ended up adopting.
Brave Jimmy picked up the little boy and took him to his mother, Elicie Jean, aged 66 years old. They both cleaned, dressed and fed him before going to see a doctor.
They subsequently notified the authorities about the minor and, since the authorities could not find the baby’s parents, a judge asked Jimmy to become the child’s legal guardian.
The young man accepted and named little Emilio Angel Jeremiah.
It was in 550 when destiny joined Jimmy with Emilio Angel, since adolescence the young man had helped in the orphanage next to his house, and on that trip, he brought gifts for the children.
It was just when he was on his way to the orphanage when several people were seen looking into a dumpster, he stepped forward and saw that there was a four-month-old baby inside.
“When I woke up that day, I did not know that my life was about to change forever”, the young man expressed.
“People were crowding around this container and I heard them discussing what to do with this little baby. Everyone was staring at him, not a single soul wanted to help,” Jimmy recalled. “He was crying and he had no clothes on and I could see the pain in his eyes, he had to do something,” he added.
After taking him to his mother and cleaning him, the doctor checked him because his body he was covered in ant bites from the garbage.
After the police investigated and did not find his biological parents, the young man of that time years old, he had to make one of the most important decisions of his life.
“When they asked me to raise him, I stayed up for days tossing and turning, trying to make a decision. I was already behind on my college fees and my family has always struggled to make ends meet. But I didn’t have a father growing up, and this poor boy faced a life of instability and uncertainty.
“Something inside told me that this had happened for a reason, so I jumped faith. Sometimes you don’t have to know what to do, you just have to be ready to do it”, he detailed.
Four and a half years after agreeing to raise the baby, the bond they have developed is very special .
Jimmy studies at the university and works, the young man divides his time between the United States and Gonaives, Haiti, where his mother takes care of Emilio.
Now the kind young man has requested to formally adopt the little boy, to officially become his father.