The Region - News from Jan. 15, 1987

Authorities asked for public help in locating a mother who fled a Duarte hospital with her 2-day-old boy who was born addicted to heroin and cocaine and in desperate need of medication. Brenda Anaya, 24, left Santa Teresita Hospital with her child who, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Robbins said, is “in desperate need of continued treatment for his addiction.” Anaya’s mother, who lives in Azusa, told authorities that her daughter “usually moves from hotel to hotel” in the San Gabriel Valley area, mostly in El Monte, Duarte and Azusa, Robbins said. The woman was described as white, 5 feet 2 inches tall, with brown hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing a red bathrobe.