Another kid dumped in Nebraska
Nebraska might want to rethink its “safe haven” law. This case marks the 17th child abandoned since the law went into effect just 3 months ago.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services said the girl is from Council Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Missouri River from Omaha. She was left at Creighton University Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon, and her case was reported to Iowa authorities.
[The law] was meant to protect the lives of infants by letting a parent leave them at any state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution, but the law doesn’t set any age limit.
The law’s legal protections might not apply since the girl is not from Nebraska, said Todd Landry, director of the department’s division of Children and Family Services.
“We have made a formal report of the abandonment to the Iowa child abuse hotline,” Landry said in a statement. “We are working with the Iowa Department of Human Services to resolve this situation as quickly as possible.”
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