The Tragic Forgotten Tale That Inspired Tupac’s “Brenda’s Got A Baby”

TrendingJuly 11, 2022

A Swift response

A police sergeant was the first on-scene to respond to a call from a couple of maintenance workers who tipped his department off about a baby’s cries coming from a compactor. It was 9:45 in the morning, and the officer didn’t expect to find himself spending it diving through trash chutes. Be that as it may, Brooklyn’s own Phillip Insardi decided to become a hero and made a dive-in for the child hoping to find it.

At first, he was skeptical. He hadn’t heard any of the cries himself so he wasn’t sure. Eventually, after a bit of digging and shining his torch inside, the officer spotted little feet that were sticking out from the rest of the trash.

A Swift response

A Heroic Recovery

Insardi eventually dared to slide inside the chute, hoping to retrieve the child before the machine would eventually turn on. The newborn was lying there, quietly, and soon upon retrieval seemed to be relatively unharmed. It was a miracle, considering how steep the fall was from the opening.

The infant was lying there, abandoned on a pile of trash, ready to meet its grim fate but the officer made sure that wouldn’t happen and luckily showed up right on time. It was cold, so the officer wrapped the baby in his shirt. The baby was loaded onto an ambulance and sent to Brookdale Hospital for immediate treatment.

Finding The Guilty Party

The infant had no name, and authorities chose to keep it that way in their official statement for the kid’s safety. They treated them for Hypothermia and luckily the baby survived the ordeal. They examined the body for any injuries but declared the 6-pound 10-ounce baby was officially unharmed. Somehow, the kid managed to land safely and was found lying under some newspapers.

The police decided it was time to approach the person who did this, and the investigators surveyed the locals. Eventually, they ended up visiting a six-story building on New Lots Avenue in East New York, on the fourth floor they found a mother who was claiming her 12-year-old daughter had just recently given birth.

Suspicions Emerge

Gladys Perry told the police that her daughter might be the one responsible for the baby they found, upon further probing she shared information about her daughter’s whereabouts and the police eventually came knocking at her classroom door. It was a normal day at Thelma J. Hamilton Junior High School until suddenly a child was asked to exit the classroom for a line of extensive questioning.

Perry denied it at first, hoping not to face the repercussions of her actions but unfortunately for her, she got forced into going to Brookdale Hospital with them. After a medical examination, it was determined that she was related to the child in some way.

Forcing The Truth Out

That wasn’t all, she had just recently given birth and the doctors found out immediately. There was no use hiding it anymore, the girl started to confess. She shared that she was the one responsible for throwing the baby down the trash chute, but investigators wanted more. She wouldn’t share any details, however, claiming she had no idea who the father was. She denied that it was even her baby.

She even denied having any personal relationships with anyone, there just weren’t any leads. The investigators shared with the public that she gave birth around 7 A.M that day and then went on to do what she did.

Who’s Accountable?

It was hard for the authorities to determine whether she should face any charges for her actions. They tried questioning the 12-year-old’s mother Mrs. Perry about her whereabouts. She shared that she had been out all day, and she usually wasn’t home for most of the night. At first, the investigators felt that it was unclear whether Mrs.Perry was the teen’s mother.

Mrs. Perry had three kids, two sons, and one daughter. They lived in a rather beat-down part of town, Stone Avenue. The streets weren’t very clean, the area had tons of empty lots, and the sidewalks were decaying. It wasn’t the best place to raise children.