In less than a week, two Indiana mothers called the national Safe Haven Baby Box hotline to arrange for the safe surrender of their newborns. According to reports, last Thursday, a woman called the hotline to ask where she could bring the child, and was able to meet someone at the Kosciusko County Fire Department to […]
LANSING, Mich. — The Republican governor of Michigan has vetoed a package of bills that would have granted permission for fire departments, police stations and hospitals within the state to install baby boxes where mothers could anonymously surrender their newborns without criminal prosecution, stating that he believes that Michigan’s existing safe haven law is sufficient […]
LANSING, Mich. — Lawmakers in Michigan have passed a package of bills that authorize emergency workers to install baby boxes at fire stations and other locations in an effort to save newborns that might otherwise be abandoned in dumpsters or killed by their mothers. “The purpose is so that children are not dumped in dumpsters […]
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — A newborn baby with her umbilical cord still attached was placed inside of a safe haven box at an Indiana fire station on Sunday, and is now safe and being cared for at a local hospital. Coolspring Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mick Pawlik says that first responders’ pagers went off at approximately […]
A Chinese boy who was featured in a documentary last year about children in China who live in medical orphanages has now been adopted and lives with his forever family in Singapore. As previously reported, Wu Keyuan, now 8, was born without external ears and ear canals and had been abandoned outside an orphanage just a few days […]
An Asian television program that aired on Tuesday centered on disabled children in China who live in medical orphanages, specifically the story of a young Chinese boy who was born without ears, and who is waiting patiently for an adoptive family despite two years of watching others be chosen first. Wu Keyuan, 7, had been abandoned […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — An Indiana woman is pushing back after being told that her safe haven baby boxes do not fall under current safe haven regulations and may result in abandonment charges for any mother who uses them. As previously reported, Monica Kelsey, founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, installed a box at a local firehouse in Michigan City […]
Safe haven boxes were recently installed at two fire stations in Indiana, the first of a statewide effort to help save the lives of abandoned newborn babies. “I was abandoned as an infant back in 1973, so I’ve always been very close to the safe haven law,” Monica Kelsey, who founded Safe Haven Baby Boxes and […]
KENNESAW, Ga. — Two women in Georgia have launched a life-saving ministry that they call “The Hope Box” after being inspired by the documentary “The Drop Box,” which featured a South Korean pastor who rescues abandoned orphans through a drop-off at his home. “Being that we are the number one state in America for sex-trafficking, […]
PASADENA, Md. — A Maryland mother is behind bars after a local pastor found an abandoned baby on the side of the road on Independence Day. Raymond Showell of Gethsemane Church of God told the Capital Gazette on Sunday that he and his wife were traveling home from church late Saturday night, not long before […]