he's nearly blind from cataracts.  i'm not sure he can hear.  his bones indicate severe arthritis.  his skin has lost all elasticity.  his hands and feet are ossified.  he has all the deterioration, the infirmities, not of a newborn, but of a man well in his eighties on the way to his grave.
of old age. his body is failing him before his life's begun.
where did he come from?
there are places for 'unwanted' babies like these, queenie.  there's no room for another mouth to feed here.  the nolan foundation, despite their good intentions, thinks this place is a large nuisance as it is.  a baby here --
queenie -- some creatures aren't meant to survive.