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The world never got to know little Claudia.

The baby was cast outside naked to die by her father, the Roman Emperor Claudius, when he learned he hadn’t fathered the little girl.

History views her life as little more than a footnote in a compendium of excesses inflicted on mankind by Roman emperors.

Human life was disposable in the time of Claudia. First century Rome simply ‘cast out’ babies that weren’t wanted, especially if they were girls, or if they were imperfect.

Some would be left in what we would characterize as a ‘dump yard’ for babies where they would die from exposure, or in some cases, be retrieved to be raised by others.

Another Child was born several decades before Claudia who changed all of that…