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Abandoned: Part 1

It happened quickly, it happened quietly and before you knew it the men were gone. Security opened the front gate to see what the motorcycle was doing just as it was pulling away into the darkness. As he turned back around to close the gate he noticed something in the shadows. As he leaned in he was startled to see the face of a little boy looking up at him. He grabbed his radio and called up to the hospital telling them to send someone down right away, there was an injured boy abandoned at the front gate. I got the call a few minutes later, jumped in my truck and made my way down to the clinic. I was not prepared for what I was about to see. I walked into the clinic and took a quick look around. Sitting on a mattress on the floor was a scared little boy clinging for dear life in Heather’s arms, one of our medical volunteers. When he turned his head toward me I did my best not to gasp, the first thing I noticed was his eye. Swollen, oozing and misshaped his eye dropped painfully. His o...