ImWithStupid
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As of July 17th 2008, every state has "Safe Haven" laws so that kids that are unwanted can be left in a safe place, without fear of prosecution...
Hide-and-seek turns up abandoned baby in bushes - Yahoo! News
I hope the message of these laws will be put out there so this is a story that is never reported again.
Hide-and-seek turns up abandoned baby in bushes
Fri Aug 29, 6:40 PM ET
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A 6-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her grandmother found a newborn baby girl abandoned in a vacant lot next to her home.
Lilliana Williams-Rodriguez told her grandmother Thursday evening that she had found a doll in the bushes.
But Thelma Williams, 55, who has six children, knew right away the baby lying motionless in the weeds near a basketball hoop was no doll. She called 911 and wrapped the baby in clothing until firefighters arrived.
Police estimated the child was born an hour or two before she was discovered. The baby girl was taken to the hospital with a fever but was expected to recover.
The infant, partially wrapped in a black shirt, still had her umbilical cord attached, said police Sgt. Tom Connellan. Police weren't sure if she was born at the scene or brought there and abandoned. They were searching for the infant's mother.
The state's Abandoned Infant Protection law allows parents unable to care for their newborns to leave them, no questions asked, with a responsible person at a hospital, police station or fire station.
Hide-and-seek turns up abandoned baby in bushes - Yahoo! News
I hope the message of these laws will be put out there so this is a story that is never reported again.