The Day’s of his Lives Scene 73

He looked at the adorable baby who was resting comfortably in his mother’s arms. The white bandage that the EMTs had put on his head had a spot of blood that had soaked into the gause. He shook his head in irritation at the behavior of the man who they had arrested. Even though the baby had the body of a two year old, it was obvious to even the most casual observer that the baby’s intelligence was subnormal. The officer had seen that vacant look in a baby’s eyes many times in his career as a police officer. Usually that look indicated that the baby was the child of a drug user or had suffered malnutrition at a critical stage of development. Given the slowness of the baby’s mother, he didn’t think that either of those reasons was the cause of the baby’s failure to develop normally. The similarity of the mother and child’s faces told him that their shared genes was most likely the root of the problem.