Woman, 36, abandoned in dumpster as a baby searches for the person who saved her life
Elise Solé
Yahoo Lifestyle
August 16, 2019
Amanda Jones was abandoned in a Georgia dumpster as a newborn. Thirty-six years later, she's searching for the person who saved her life. (Photo: Courtesy of Amanda Jones)
A woman who was abandoned in a dumpster as a baby is searching for the person who saved her life.
In January 1983, Amanda Jo Jones’ birth parent wrapped her in a blanket and deposited her inside a dumpster near the Prado Business Mall in Atlanta, Georgia. A stranger (or strangers) rescued her, she went into foster care, and was adopted by a family who remain her parents today. Now, 36 years later, Jones is searching — not for her biological parents — but for her guardian angel.
“I want to thank whoever found me because they changed so many lives by being in the right place at the right time,” Jones tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Jones only knows scraps of her life story gleaned from old newspaper articles and the faint memories of her 68-year-old parents Kay and Wayne, who adopted her at three months old. “They were told ‘something about a dumpster,’” says Jones. The couple raised Jones, and her adopted sister Stephanie, in Palmetto and never hid any childhood details.
“My mom read me a book called ‘The Adopted Family’ and she shared bits of information,” Jones tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “I kept asking questions and by the time I was 6, I understood that my mom didn’t birth me.”