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From the article:

"The infant, named Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God" — by hospital workers, may be able to leave the hospital as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, according to her great-uncle, Saleh al-Badran. He said the baby’s paternal aunt, who recently gave birth and survived the quake, will raise her."

Thank goodness Aya is doing well.

This was uplifting until I read that "a series of people" tried to kidnap the baby by pretending to be her relatives. They thought "Ah, God favors her, I can't wait to get my grubby hands on that!" In the middle of such tragedy... people are unbelievable.

I just find this article sad. Her parents and siblings died, along with at least 35,000 other people in the earthquake. Her mother gave birth, labor probably induced by the earthquake, and then slowly died next to her.

Crazy people, a child is a very expensive lucky charm to raise compared to a rabbits foot.

Forgive these people, they are currently living in literal hell, their entire lives have been destroyed in the blink of an eye. Some madness can be expected, people are desperate for some hope, positivity, love.

Be compassionate. What they did is wrong, but understandable.

It's all very, very sad. And super important to highlight every bit of positivity when it comes, that's what those people (and all of us empathizing with them) need to get through the horrible event.

Why would that be uplifting? It's just another reminder of catastrophe

No. Trying to excuse kidnapping a baby is really too much. There's nothing about such a crisis that justifies that in any way. All it is is parasites taking advantage of a horrible situation.

I could see heavily traumatized, grieving people having lost their own new born child clinging to every bit of (even irrational) hope. And therefore claiming it is their child instead of having to face reality and living with the fact that their own child died or is still missing under the rubble. This is speculative of course but calling them parasites is uncalled for.

I'm not saying we should accept or justify it, but just understand. They've been punished enough already. If they had succeeded then of course they must be stopped, but that's all hypothetical.

They are all still just very frightened and hurt humans. There is no normal response to such an insane situation.

But I really get what you're saying, I do.

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Anyone who tries to steal someone else's baby is a fucking parasite. If they are so selfish and absorbed in their own grief that they disregard the grief of the BABY'S ACTUAL FAMILY that THEY would be causing -- not some natural disaster -- they can go to Hell. You don't comp your grief by making grief for others. I stand by calling that parasitic.

I agree. A newborn lived, but holy crap, look at the context!