Kids & Family
Memory Card Full of Photos of Deceased Son Returned to Pa. Mother
The York mother's son died of SIDS, and then a thief took her cell phone, which contained numerous photos of her son.
Patricia Harris had already suffered through the worst pain a mother can know when her infant son Cole died of SIDS in February.
But insult was added to injury Friday when Harris' purse was stolen, and with it her cell phone -- which held almost all of the photos she had of her little boy, the York Daily Record said.
Harris, of York, reached out to her community, hanging fliers around the neighborhood and posting about the missing memory card on Facebook.
"I feel like I lost him all over again," Harris told the York Daily Record. "So many memories were on my phone. I just want it back."
People rallied around the Harris family, with some even offering to buy the thief a new phone if only Harris' could be returned to her, the Daily Record said.
The thief seemingly had a conscience: The memory card from Harris' phone was anonymously returned to her on Monday, the Daily Record said.
"I've got my memories back," Harris told the Daily Record. "That's all I wanted."
Read full York Daily Record coverage here and here.
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