When This Couple Heard A Child Was Dumped At A Church, The Wife Said, “I Bet That’s Our Baby”

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Darlene and Ron Lickness were in the car on a summer’s day in 1968. Suddenly a story on the radio caught their attention. On the steps of a Minneapolis church, an abandoned baby had been found by the church janitor. Then, with tears in her eyes, Darlene nudged her husband and said, “I bet you that’s our baby.”

It was July 7, 1968, and Darlene and Ron were traveling with their four biological children when they heard the news story – and it seemed to affect Darlene profoundly. Though she knew nothing about the baby, she felt that she had to adopt him into the family.

The baby, nicknamed Baby John Doe, was left abandoned on the hard steps of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was in the early hours of a Sunday that the baby was found. The infant was wrapped in just a few sheets of newspaper.

The baby was only hours old when he was found by a church janitor. The janitor believes that the baby was in fact lucky to survive. In a newspaper article published the following day, he was quoted as saying, “I was happy to find him because if the dogs had come he might have been killed.”

The origins of the baby were never discovered – and all that Darlene and Ron knew of the abandoned infant was what they had heard on the radio and read in the press. Nevertheless, Darlene strongly believed that the baby should become part of their family.

When Darlene saw the child, she was smitten – and it would be the beginning of their life together. In an interview with KARE11 she said, “[He had] all this curly hair. He looked like he didn’t have a clue what was going on. Just that little expression on his face.” She was so taken with the baby that there was one factor that she completely overlooked.

While the couple were white, the baby was mixed race. As Ron told KARE11, “I just thought it was so neat, that this was our baby, wow, [it] felt good. I never thought of skin color. No, it was never a thought, he was our child.” But just because they wanted him, didn’t necessarily mean that they could have him.

It was 1968, after all. And although the Supreme Court had declared segregation as unconstitutional that very year, it would be a further two years before it was made illegal. Darlene, then, must have faced an uphill battle to bring what she believed to be her baby home.

Darlene and Ron, however, were undeterred. Skin color simply wasn’t an issue for them. All that motivated them was the love that they had for the child who had captured their hearts. Though she wasn’t the woman who gave birth to him, Darlene wanted to be the one to give the boy, to be named Dann, a happy life.

Darlene and Ron never made it a secret that Dann was adopted. Indeed, it’s not a fact that they could really hide. Realizing that he was different to his siblings at a young age, Dann explained to KARE11, “I knew at three years old, it’s like, ‘How come I’m dark?’ And they explained to me right away.”

The Lickness family, however, is built on love and acceptance. As well as Dann, who is of mixed race, they adopted another son who was African-American. Both adoptions occurred through the Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, the mission of which has been “[to make] life better for [the state’s] citizens” since 1865.

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