Azita Milanian, an Iranian-born US citizen, turned out to be a heroine by accident: in 1998, during a race with her dogs in the city of Altadena, California, she had her attention diverted from the exercise track when one of your pets noticed that there was something strange out there. It was a Saturday night, and the woman had canceled a party so she could work out. With the dog's warning, she went to check what it was and noticed a tiny foot escaping from a pink grave. It was a newborn who had been buried alive!

She immediately called the police but could not complete the call. Azita saw a driver nearby, reported the incident and the guy went to the nearest police station, which sent a car to attend the case. Meanwhile, the woman held the baby in her lap and waited for the rescue. The little boy still had the umbilical cord and clung to his savior, thus managing to control the crying.

Even though he was buried alive, the boy managed to fight for his life and survived. After handing it over to the authorities, Azita lost contact. At the hospital, he was called "Baby Christian" because of the miracle of having resisted, and his story ended up roaming the country, with him receiving gifts from various places.

Azita Milanian, pictured in the late 1990s, and Baby Christian: their paths crossed on May 16, 1998

Exciting reunion

Baby Christian's heroine visited him at the hospital, but given the national repercussion of the case at the time, she decided not to adopt him. Azita was afraid that the exposure would cause her birth mother to return to try to recover the boy and that would turn into another trauma in her life.

In the end, the trauma didn't stop happening. For two decades, Azita wondered what had happened to the baby she had rescued. What kind of person he had become and where he would have gone to live. Baby Christian was put up for adoption, given the official name of Matthew Christian Whitaker, and didn't know its true story until recently.

Matthew Christian Whitaker knows where he was found buried in a shallow grave

After a godmother told the story of Matthew to a local radio, the staff decided to investigate the origin of the boy and arrived again in Azita. The woman was thrilled and promptly met the reunion, which was extremely exciting. They saw each other again on May 16, 2018 - exactly on Matthew's birthday and the twentieth birthday when his story with Azita first intersected.

Matthew studied at Santa Monica and El Camino schools and now plans to join the University of Arizona journalism faculty. He does not keep hurt from his birth mother, as he thinks she did what she felt would be best at the moment and may have regretted it. He was only thrilled to pass by the place where Azita found him: “Here could have been my grave, ” he said with emotion.

Exciting reunion was promoted by a radio

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