Shocking moment a woman gives birth on the San Francisco sidewalk in broad daylight
A graphic video has emerged of a homeless woman giving birth on a San Francisco sidewalk in broad daylight as passersby try to help her.
The incident took place on San Francisco’s Geary Street, right off Union Square, in the city’s Tenderloin District, which is notoriously overrun by drug-addicted homeless people.
The San Francisco Fire Department confirmed that a woman gave birth to a child in “public view” on Thursday, though they did not confirm whether the woman in the video is the same as referenced in their statement, citing privacy laws.
In the video posted online, the woman is seen lying on her side with her pants pulled down, trying to rock the newborn.
Two other people appear in the video next to the woman, one man, wearing a baseball cap and with his cell phone off, kneels next to her as the baby emerges, and the other stands above the heartbreaking scene.
The baby lies crying on the sidewalk, covered in the mess of his birth, until his mother picks him up with a piece of cloth.
“Calm down, the ambulance is coming,” you can hear the man with the mobile phone say in the video.
A shocking video of a woman giving birth on a San Francisco sidewalk has been circulating online
A woman in a video, who reportedly smoked crack all afternoon, gave birth on a sidewalk in San Francisco
Several other bystanders can also be seen in the periphery of the video.
The Twitter account PPV-Tahoe – News Journalist posted the disturbing video on Sunday.
The San Francisco Fire Department confirmed on Thursday that a woman gave birth to a child in “public display” on Thursday.
“The public view is an area that can be viewed by the public like a sidewalk,” a spokesman for the department said.
Both the mother and child were transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
According to the San Francisco standardwho reported on the statement from the fire department, births in the public eye are rare, but do happen occasionally.
In 2007, a woman left the son she gave birth on a sidewalk, and last year a stillborn baby was discovered in the port-a-potty of a city-sanctioned homeless camp.
District 5 in San Francisco, where the woman in the video gave birth, is overseen by Dean Preston, a self-declared Democratic Socialist, who used to work as a solicitor for hire.
His campaign website says he believes that “everyone deserves a dignified, productive and healthy life through universal policies such as Medicare for All, social housing and free education.”
Dailymail.com has contacted Preston’s office regarding the incident shown above.
The unnamed woman had to have both her feet amputated because she did not want to seek medical treatment for the flesh-eating disease
Homeless men are seen on a sidewalk near San Francisco City Hall, where lawmakers are increasingly devising relaxed policies that don’t protect any portion of the city’s vulnerable population
Public policy in San Francisco has continually allowed a towering homeless, drug-addicted, and mentally unstable population to rule the city’s streets.
The city also faces an increasing problem of violent crime. Tech exec Bob Lee became one of the city’s latest murder victims last week.
San Francisco’s homeless number was counted at nearly 8,000 in February last year, the second highest since 2005, according to the government’s official census that takes place every three years.
It has almost certainly exploded since the last count.
Various liberal politicians and city leaders have attempted to implement numerous policies to curb the many problems created as a result of the growing homeless and drug-addicted population.
One specific harm reduction policy that failed was last year’s opening of the Tenderloin Center, which was intended to alleviate the city’s drug and homelessness crisis.
It cost the taxpayer a staggering $22 million and was supposed to be a “safe place” for addicts to “get high without getting robbed” and without fear of fatal overdosing.
It also intended to direct users to help centers, although during its first four months of operation it only referred 18 people out of the more than 23,000 people welcome to the site.
Overall, less than one percent of visits ended in a “complete pairing” with behavioral health programs.
Despite their efforts, more than 500 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco by 2022. In 2021 there were 641.
Many people living on the streets suffer from serious illnesses that are often exacerbated by substance use.
Homeless people are seen in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco
Last month, a homeless woman was filmed having both her feet amputated following an illness for which passersby begged her to be treated.
On February 6, citizen journalist JJ Smith filmed the shocking first clip of the woman refusing medical attention for her damaged feet.
In a heartbreaking follow-up posted on March 30, it appears the woman didn’t take his advice when she showed up in a wheelchair with stumps.
In the February video, the wild-eyed woman, who appears to be foaming at the mouth, refuses the videographer’s offer to take her to the hospital to treat the infection on both her feet.
“Let me take you to the hospital,” he says.
“No, no, no,” she replies, sitting on a pile of dirty materials.
‘Your feet are [sic] gets cut off if you don’t fix it,” Smith said.
“It will be sorted out, I promise,” she insisted.
Further details about the cause of the woman’s illness have not been disclosed.