9th Safe Haven Case Reported Tuesday:
The 17th child was dropped off at a safe haven under Nebraska’s new wide-open safe haven law.
If you haven’t been following the story Nebraska recently passed a safe haven law that not only allows newborns to be dropped off at a ‘safe haven’ but children up to the age of 17 as well.
The number of 17 is a little misleading since one man dropped off nine of his kids.
Of course with the Nebraska safe haven stories I’ve been posting there has to be a twist. This time it’s that the 14-year-old girl isn’t from Nebraska but she’s from Iowa. In Iowa, the safe haven laws only apply to infants up to two weeks old.
This brings up an interesting dilemma in my mind. Is this a Nebraska safe haven case or an Iowa abandonment case. How do states handle safe haven cases when the child is from another state?
I guess in other states they wouldn’t be able to tell since the kids being dropped off can’t even talk.
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